THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
179 
June 8. 
liable to be confounded is Croup, or inflammation of the 
windpipe, which, however, in addition to the symptoms 
mentioned, is distinguished by the loud and peculiar noise 
made in breathing. 
As the two diseases yield to the same treatment, their 
being confounded together is not a matter of very great 
moment. I have always found that, if taken in time, the 
administration of one grain of calomel and two grains of 
ipecacuanha; or, in severe cases, one grain of calomel and 
one twelfth of a grain of tartar emetic, rapidly reduces the 
inflammatory action. Warm, dry housing, and unstimulating 
food, such as boiled lice, or mashed potato, with plenty of 
green food, being given at tiro same time. 
I have seen several birds this year that have been sacri¬ 
ficed by giving them Rue, and other stimulating nostrums, 
when labouring under this complaint. 
As I know that some of the medical readers of The 
Cottage Gardener are interested in this matter, I may 
mention that the disease is usually pneumonia, not bron¬ 
chitis. —W. B. TegBTMeier, Willesdvn, Middlesex. 
appropriate name of “ Fern-leaf,” aptly expressing the finely 
pinnated character of the branche: 
that 
which do, indeed, 
impossible' in a 
SEA WEEDS. 
(Cfinlinued from page 165.) 
CALITH AMNION. 
12. C. tetricum. —Growing in the sea on rocks, common 
in England and Ireland, hut not in Scotland. Fronds from 
two to eight inches long; ‘‘a rigid, shaggy plant, of a dull 
brownish-red colour. It is one of the coarsest of this 
family.”— Rev. Dr. Landsbcrough. 
19. C. IIookeri (Hooker’s).—On other algie and on rocks, 
of a brown or red colour, from one to three inches high; 
may be found from Orkney to Cornwall; very fine in Arran, 
and on the Ayrshire coast. 
14. C. roseum (Rose-coloured). — On rocks which are 
covered with mud; from three to four inches high, much 
branched, the tips of the branches crowded with plumules ; 
not uncommon ; colour a reddish-purple. 
15. C. byssoideum (Byssus-like).—This is not a very 
uncommon plant; it grows upon other algae. Stems extremely 
resemble fairy ferns, so delicate 
figure to do them justice. 
24. C. THUGOiDEusr. —This tiny and beautiful plant is 
rare. It has been found at Yarmouth, Torquay, Wicklow, 
&c. It is a fine red colour, one or two inches high, and of 
a soft and flaccid substance. 
24. C. corymbosum.— A very pretty plant; I found it in 
autumn floating in the sea at Ardrossan; it is very gelatinous, 
from one to three inches high, rose-colour, and adhering 
well to paper, so glossy, too, that it makes very pretty speci¬ 
mens. “ The plant is well marked to the naked eye by the 
peculiar level-topped or corymbose appearance of the 
smaller branches, joined to their slender byssoid aspect.”— 
Harvey. 
25. C. spongiosum (Sponge-like).—On rocks and algse; 
dark-coloured, and very much matted, from two to loin- 
inches high ; south of England and Ireland. 
26. G. fedicellatum (Leaf-stalked).—Not uncommon on 
rocks in the sea; rather soft, with long branches, colour 
a fine red, which soon changes in fresh water. 
27. C. Rotiiii (Roth’s). This little plant is like pcices of 
velvet upon rocks, of a deep purple-colour. 
28. C. FLORiDULUM (Small - flower). — Very common; 
Orkney and the Land’s End; it is in little tufts about un 
inch high. 
29. C, Mesocarpum (Middle-seeded).—Forming a purple 
crust on rocks at low-water mark. 
30. 0. sparsum (Spreading).—“On old stems of Lami¬ 
naria saccharina; scarcely a line high, forming minute 
scattered tufts.”— Harvey. 
31. C. Da viesii (Davies’s).—Another minute buL beautiful 
little parasite, of a deep red, often on Geranium riibrum. 
“ Filaments two or three lines high, forming elegant pencilled 
tufts.”— Harvey. 
This little plant brings us to the end of the second great 
order of marine Algse, Rhodospermeas. We shall hope 
next to have the green ones, so refreshing to the eye, and 
especially so when they have their “ new foliage on,” if I 
may so call it. The plants of the ocean, as well as those 
of the earth, are awaking from the long sleep of winter, and 
beginning to appear in fresh beauty. The pretty pink 
tender and gelatinous, much divided from the base, either fronds of Dacrydium sanguinea are already waving about in 
' their rocky garden in the sea. Cladophora arcta, of a brilliant 
green, is in tufts of beauty, a living emerald. The broad 
leaves of Ulva latissima, with their many folds adding to 
the beauty of the plant by causing deeper shades of colour; 
the very delicate and pale green Ulva lactuca is growing 
upon its mussel shells and rocks (March). The long purple 
streamers of DumonltaJUiformis are spreading in the waters, 
moving as they move. Very soon we may say, “ the time 
of the singing of birds is come. The voice of the turtle 
is heard in our land.” Everything knows its appointed 
time; the swallow is now here. Many sweet flowers have 
already come and are gone again ! Even the tiny weed which 
concludes this paper has its appointed time !—S. B. 
(To be continued.) 
with several principal branches thicker than the rest, which 
bear a great number of lesser branches, or wholly com¬ 
posed of slender byssoid branches, inextricably entangled 
together.”— Harvey. 
16. C. polyspermum (Many-seeded).—Dull red tufts of a 
round form, and from one to three inches across; not 
uncommon, and very abundant in Scotland, on rocks in the 
sea and piers. 
17. C. purpurascens (Purplish).—“ Gathered on the 
beach, at Brighton, by Mr. W. Borrer.” 
18. C. fasciculatum (Tufted). —This, Dr. Harvey says, 
he fears, must he looked on as a very doubtful species. 
19. C. Borreri (Borrer’s).—Rather rare, growing on rocks ; 
colour pale rose. 
20. C. affine. —“A doubtful species.” Shores of Bute, 
on Fuci.— Dr. Grcville. 
21. —G. TRiriNNATUM (Thrice-pinnated). — On perpen¬ 
dicular rocks at low-water mark; very rare, having been 
found in Ireland only, by Mr. McCalla ; at Roundstone Bay, 
and at Plymouth, by Mr. Rohloff; very beautiful. 
22. C. GRAcn.LiMUM (Most-graceful).—On mud-covered 
rocks; one to four inches high, very much branched, and 
slender; colour rosy-red. 
Dr. Landsborough, speaking of this elegant plant, says, 
“ In looking at these beautiful works of God’s hands one 
would require an additional stock of epithets of admiration.” 
Hear what Professor Harvey says respecting it: “ This 
extremely elegant plant, perhaps truly the most graceful 
of the very beautiful genus to which it belongs, was first 
gathered on the shores of France, by M. Grateloup, who 
communicated specimens to the elder Agardh, by whom it 
was published in 1828. Shortly afterwards the indefatigable 
Mrs. Griffiths discovered magnificent specimens growing 
along the mud-covered base of the harbour pier at Torquay, 
in which locality it may be found in more or less plenty 
every summer. From Mrs. Griffiths it received the very 
WEIGHTS AND EARLY PRODUCTIVENESS 
OE DORKING CHICKENS. 
Your periodical of May 25th has just reached me, in 
which I have read the. interesting communication of Capt. 
Hornby upon the weight of chickens of 1854. I can 
corroborate his statements from my own experience. 1 
have this morning (May 30) weighed, with great accuracy, 
in the presence of soveral witnesses, several chickens of 
this year; but, for private reasons, I will furnish you with 
the weights of two only. 
Dorking cockerel, hatched Jan. 15th, 1854, weighed, 
May 30th, 51bs 12ozs., avoirdupois. Dorking pullet, hatched 
at the same date, w-eighed at the same time 5tbs 9ozs. 
The pullet weighed this weight three weeks ago ; but as 
she has been laying three eggs a week since that date, she 
has not increased in size at the rate she did previously to that 
event. It has been to me a source of annoyance, that my 
earliest chickens have commenced laying at an earlier age 
