Field notebook : Massachusetts and Connecticut, 1890-1896
Page 185
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Friday Apr. 28 - '93 Scenic Park 1805 - Fucus ericoides Sunday April 30 - '93 1806 Enteromorpha plumosa, Rütz (=804 (E. North Britic)) "Fresh Fern" - on pebbles at the shore. This grows to the length of 2 or 3 feet in a wisp, forming longropy, cane feroid strips, attached here to pebbles (and shells) and floating in the surface. The long monorhymous branches, and elongated tips, when fresh, float in the air like spider's web. Mounted full ser for exscce.