. The sea-beach at ebb-tide : a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks . PLATE XXII. Rhodytnenia Baileyana. Rhodymenia articulata. RED SEAWEEDS 85 SUBORDER KHODYMENIEJE GENTS It. pfdinatft (• hand-shaped ). The plant commonly known as rises from a disk in a short cylindrical stem which spreads into athin, broad, fan-shaped membrane six to twelve inches long and four toeight inches wide at the top ; deeply and irregularly cleft into manywedge-shaped segments ; margin usually entire, but often with
. The sea-beach at ebb-tide : a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks . PLATE XXII. Rhodytnenia Baileyana. Rhodymenia articulata. RED SEAWEEDS 85 SUBORDER KHODYMENIEJE GENTS It. pfdinatft (• hand-shaped ). The plant commonly known as rises from a disk in a short cylindrical stem which spreads into athin, broad, fan-shaped membrane six to twelve inches long and four toeight inches wide at the top ; deeply and irregularly cleft into manywedge-shaped segments ; margin usually entire, but often with leaflets ;ends of segments indented, showing where divisions will ultimatelyoccur ; color dark purplish-red. It grows on rocks and on alga? belowlow-water mark, and is common on the New England and Californiacoasts. This is an edible alga, and, like CJwndnts crispus, is an article offood in seaports. (Plate XXII.) GENUS Lomentaria L. Bftilfi/ftna. Fronds two to five inches high; grows in tufts;filaments tubular, irregularly branched ; branchlets often all on oneside ; branches and brauchlets curved or arched, a
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