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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
August 25. i 
ECTOCARPUS. 
1. Ectocarpus srr.ieuLOsus (Podded). — Pale yellow- 
olive tufts; soft, slender, and much branched ; common; 
(!—18 inches long; soon decomposing in fresh water. 
2. E. AMPHiBius.—Short, soft, pale olive tufts. “In 
tide ditches.” 
3. E. fenestratus. —Of a pale green; slender; small 
tufts. 
4. E. fasciculatus.— Thick olive tufts; .1—2 inches 
high; parasitic on the larger Alt/as. Not uncommon. 
5. E. Hincksle. —First noticed by Miss Hincks, at Bally- 
castle, Giant’s Causeway. Parasitical on Laminaria bullosa. 
Dark olive, and tufted. 
0. E. tomentosus (Downy).—With a sponge-like branch¬ 
ing frond, olive or brownish. On rocks and larger Alya;. 
Not uncommon. 
7. E. crinitus (Tressed). — “Muddy sea-shores, in fleeces 
of a bright bay.” Found by Mrs. Griffith, in Devonshire. 
8. E. pusillus (Dwarf).—“Like a tuft of pale brown 
wool.” Torquay, Mrs. Griffiths; and Land’s End, Mr. 
Ralfs. 
9. E. distortus (Deformed).—Tufts deep brown; matted: 
4—8 inches long. On Zostera. 
10. E. Landsburgii. —In honour of the Rev. Dr. Lands- 
borough, who dredged it in Lamlash Bay, and says—“It 
has not much beauty to recommend it, but it is a little 
curiosity.” Like the Scotch Thistle, it is armed at all points, 
and says, as plainly as a hundred dirks can say it—“ Wha 
daur meddle wi’ me ? ” 
11. E. litoralis. —Thick tufts of a dirty brown colour. 
Very common all the year round. 
12. E. longifructus (Long-fruited).—Much resembling 
E. litoralis, but the fruit larger. 
13. E. granulosus (Grained).—Of a green or yellow 
| colour; the branches feathery, and graceful. The one from 
which our plate is taken, I found on the fine shores of 
Bamborough, Northumberland, of which I purpose saying 
something in another paper. 
14. E. sphjeropiiorus.— 1—3 inches long. Parasitical on 
Ptilota sericea, and Cladophora rupestris. Not common, but 
in various places, says Harvey, from Orkney to Cornwall. 
15. E. brachiatus (Branched)..—“Tufted, feathery, and 
much branched.” Rare. On Rhodomeniapalmala. 
10. E. Mertensii. — “ On mud-covered rocks and stones. 
The branches resembling delicate feathers. Colour fine 
olive green. A very beautiful species.” 
4. MYRIOTRICHIA. 
“ Filaments capillary, liaccid-jointed (simple), beset on 
all sides with a simple spine-like ramuli, clothed with 
byssoid fibres. Fructification elliptical spbres containing a 
dark-coloured, granular mass, within a transparent perispore. 
Name lrom two Greek words, signifying numberless and a 
! hair.” — Harvey. 
L Myriotrichia clavueformis (Club-shaped).—Growing 
o Chorda lomentaria. The stein is thickly set with branches 
which increase in length upwards, and make the frond look 
club-shaped. Discovered by Miss Hutchins forty years ago. 
2. M. filiformis (Thread-like).—Stem thread-like, some¬ 
times curled. On Chorda lomentaria. Not uncommon in 
England and Ireland. 
How surprising the variety in form of the plants con¬ 
tained in this large order of Melanosperma;; some of them 
surpassing in length the tallest forest trees, while others 
require the aid of a microscope to develope their delicate 
beauty! “ In the deep bays of the southern hemisphere, 
along the shores of the Falldands, and among the Archi¬ 
pelago of Cape Horn, the species of Lessonia and Durvillcea 
resemble submarine trees, with gigantic leaves pendant 
from the tips of robust branches.”— {Harvey.) The works 
of God are wonderful; their variety is endless; their beauty 
surpassing; they present a boundless supply of food for 
interesting meditation to the most cultivated mind, and also 
to those, who, having been deprived by poverty or other 
circumstances of much education, are still permitted to 
read, page after page, in nature’s own large volume, feeling 
the mind expanded by the revelations of wisdom, some¬ 
thing of the mind of God made known to us in His wonder¬ 
ful works. “ All thy works shall praise thee, and thy saints 
shall bless thee.”—S. B. 
{To be continued.) 
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS AT THE 
NEW YORK CRYSTAL PALACE. 
We are truly an agricultural people. If there was no 
other proof of this fact, the display of the products of peace 
made by our countrymen in the present industrial exhi¬ 
bitions would be in itself a sufficient vindication of the 
assertion. Othei* nations represented in the great fair may 
excel in other departments of the peaceful arts, but the 
United States is first in everything pertaining to agriculture. 
The ingenuity of our people has met every necessity for 
husbanding the productions of our fruitful domains with 
machinery which almost defies the powers of the most 
skilful to improve or supersede. Invention in our country 
I has been made to do more labour upon the farm than, 
j perhaps, in any other nation on the globe. Among the 
1 many curious and valuable inventions which are worthy the 
examination of all interested in the progress of our people, 
; is one from the Old Dominion, called “ The Farmer's Labour- 
saviny Machine ,” invented by Elisha S. Synder. This is a 
new machine, and never, we believe, before the present 
time, was exhibited to the public. It looks* some like a 
winnowing mill, excepting that it is much larger. Every 
farmer in the land will hail it as his best friend, if it accom¬ 
plishes, what it promises, which we have no reason to doubt. 
It is designed to thresh, clean, measure, and bag one 
j hundred bushels of grain per day. It also throws off smut, 
| cheat, and other impurities, and prepares the grain ready 
cleaned and sacked for market, all by the same operation. 
: The one on exhibition is of two-horse power, but they may 
| be made of any power wished, the amount of work they are 
able to accomplish being dependent upon their size. If 
needed, they may be made for hand power, and used in place 
of the common fanning-mill for cleaning rye, oats, corn, etc., 
A machine of six-horse power, and attended by seven hands, 
will thresh, clean, and bag the very large amount of two hun¬ 
dred and fifty bushels of wheat, ready for the mill, in one day. 
It can require no argument to prove the superiority of this 
invention, if it acts as it purports. What its greatest powers, 
are has not yet been decided, as it has not been in use for a 
period long enough to properly test it. But it is stated, that 
one of these machines of one-eightli horse power, has 
already threshed, cleaned, and bagged forty thousand bushels 
of grain, and the cost of repairs in the separating and clean¬ 
ing apparatus did not exceed five dollars in doing this 
amount of work. We can suggest no improvement to this 
invention, unless it be the addition of other powers, making 
it capable, also, of grinding the grain, mixing the dough, and 
baking the bread, which improvements would not astonish 
us, owing to the ingenuity already manifested by the won¬ 
derful inventions of our countrymen. Farmers and scien- 
i tific men should examine Mr. Snyder’s invention. 
