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Excerpt from Marine Botany and Sea-Side Objects: Embracing Every Feature of Interest Connected With This Delightful Sea-Side Recreation; And Illustrated With Many Charming Specimens In Harvey's Manual (from which we have already quoted), we are informed that the Algae, growing in the depths of the great Pacific Ocean, have stems which exceed in length (though not in diameter) the trunk of the tallest forest trees and others have leaves that rival in expansion those of the palm. Some are simple globules and spheres, con sisting of a single cellule, a little bag of tissue filled with colouring matter; some are mere strings of such cellules, cohering by the ends; others, a little more perfect, exhibit the appearance of branched threads; in others, again, the branches and threads are compound, consisting of several such threads joined together; and in others the tissue expands into broad fiat fronds (leaves). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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