DELESSERIA — PLOCAMIUM. 



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large branch will retain this scent for months. 

 I have by me a tuft of this plant, which I 

 gathered in July last, and its peculiar smell is 

 now (April) very perceptible. 



There are five British species of this beautiful 

 genus, none of them very rare. Delesseria hypo- 

 glossum (plate d, fig. 4) may be found in the 

 summer months growing on almost every coast. 

 It is a very pretty plant, although not so 

 gorgeous as its predecessor. The fronds are 

 generally of small size, being hardly a quarter 

 of an inch in length. 



In the little sea-weed landscapes, that are 

 sold so abundantly at the fashionable sea-side 

 towns, there is one species of sea- weed in great 

 request for trees and bushes. It is of a bright 

 pinky red colour, and is thickly branched, so as 

 to afibrd a tolerable representation of a forest 

 tree, or of a thick bush. This is the Plocamium 

 coccineum, a plant sufficiently beautiful to the 

 unassisted eye, but especially so when submitted 

 to a magnifying lens. When examined through a 

 glass of moderate power, it will be seen that 

 even the tiny branchlets, each hardly thicker 

 than a hair, are again furnished with a row of 

 smaller ramifications, somewhat resembling a 

 very finely-toothed comb. 



