. The sea-beach at ebb-tide : a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks . epeatedly branched; young branches showarticulations and seem to be striped; all branches clothed with short,very delicate, transparent filaments, which give the plant a hazy ap-pearance ; color purplish-red, which becomes brown when dried;does not collapse when taken from the water. It grows in tufts belowlow-water mark, and is found in the drift on the beach from Cape Codsouthward. (Plate XXXIII.) GENUS Ceramium The pitcher-weed. This genus is easily recognized by the endsof
. The sea-beach at ebb-tide : a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks . epeatedly branched; young branches showarticulations and seem to be striped; all branches clothed with short,very delicate, transparent filaments, which give the plant a hazy ap-pearance ; color purplish-red, which becomes brown when dried;does not collapse when taken from the water. It grows in tufts belowlow-water mark, and is found in the drift on the beach from Cape Codsouthward. (Plate XXXIII.) GENUS Ceramium The pitcher-weed. This genus is easily recognized by the endsof the filaments, which are forked and incurved, resembling minutepincers or claws. The filaments are also more or less distinctlybanded. It is widely distributed. C. rubrum, red ceramium. This is a very common and robustspecies, found every where, and growing on everything. It is variable inappearance, becoming quite coarse when old, the incurving, claw-likeends, which are characteristic of the genus, being less pronounced. Itbranches by repeated forking, and, under the microscope, shows a bark- I 7 :; -* . / I JB.
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