The ocean / By P.H. Gosse.

  • Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810-1888.
Date:
1846
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The ocean / By P.H. Gosse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Sea-Girdle (Laminaria digitatci). Orkneys Red-ware (Laminaria digit at a). It is very common, growing chiefly in deep water, where it is protected from the heavy action of the waves. Its appearance is singular; from a number of little root- lets, which grasp with great tenacity the naked rock, springs a straight olive-brown stem, sometimes as thick as a man’s wrist, and three or four feet long: at the summit it dilates into a broad carti- laginous leaf, oblong in form, and palmated, or di-