The field, the garden and the woodland, or, Interesting facts respecting flowers and plants in general . ent on the narrative of an eventso affecting. Truly did that poet testify of theworks of God who said Nature never did betrayThe heart that trusted her ! It was by the assurance which the mariner feltof the constancy of the laws by which Nature isgoverned, that he inferred a fact so important intheir perilous condition. Plants which inhabit the sea-shore are remark-able for the peculiar colour of their leaves andstems, they being very generally of that lightgreen tint which we call sea-gree
The field, the garden and the woodland, or, Interesting facts respecting flowers and plants in general . ent on the narrative of an eventso affecting. Truly did that poet testify of theworks of God who said Nature never did betrayThe heart that trusted her ! It was by the assurance which the mariner feltof the constancy of the laws by which Nature isgoverned, that he inferred a fact so important intheir perilous condition. Plants which inhabit the sea-shore are remark-able for the peculiar colour of their leaves andstems, they being very generally of that lightgreen tint which we call sea-green, and coveredWith a mealy substance of this colour, whichseems in its nature something like the bloom on FUCI- 193 the skin of a plum, and may he ruhhed off m thesame manner. When this mealy powder existsupon their foliage, plants are said to be of our inland plants have leaves and stemswhich are glaucous, but their number is compar-atively small. The plants which I have in this letter enume-rated do not constitute the whole number of oursea-side plants; but these are the most conspi-. Group of Fuci. cuous and well known, and I have not added the 194 FUCUS GIGANTEUS, remaining few, lest mere description should provetedious. The great number of Fuci (sea-weeds),which the storm throws upon the beach, or whichfloat upon the surface of the water, show that thedepths of the mighty ocean are covered with avariety of plants which afford food to its numerousinhabitants. St. Pierre mentions, that the seasabout Cape Yerd and the Gulf of Florida yieldso great a profusion of floating herbage, as thatthe ocean is covered with it for the space of thirtyor forty leagues; so that ships can with diflScultyforce their way through its entangled mass. TheFucus gigdnteuSj well known in these seas, is aweed of such magnitude as that one plant is often700 feet long. Sea-weeds of immense lengthfloat about Cape Horn, whose consistence is likeleather, so that buckets are sometimes made of
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