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THE SALT-WATER AQUARIUM. 
beautiful and remarkable of all our marine vegetables. Several generally 
rise from the same base in erect or slightly spreading tufts, seldom more 
than two or three inches high, the divisions arising apparently not from 
growth, but from laceration, or separation after growth, the same concen- 
trical lines being continued in the same curve through all the segments. 
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peacock’s tail pavoota; 
ABTICtTLATED CHTLOCLADIA. 
The Articulated Chtlocladia may be found either growing upon 
rocks, or attached to some larger plants. Its fronds are tubular, looking 
like a series of the cells of an orange, united at their extremities; the 
branches spring from some of these constructions, and the plant grows in 
tufts, from a creeping, fibrous base, and rises in height from one to six 
inches; they are of a tender substance, and purplish or pinky red colored. 
BED BOCK-LEAVED DELES SABI A. ESCULENT IUID.EA. 
This plant, and other varieties that are allied to it, are only of annual dura¬ 
tion; but the minute disk, in all of them, is accompanied by fibres, which 
