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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
98
“It
is
a
beautiful
and
fascinating
sight
for
those
who
have
never
seen
it
before,
to
see
the
little
shrubberies
of
pink
coralline—
‘the
arborets
of
jointed
stone’—
that
fringe
those
pretty
pools.
It
is
a
charming
sight
to
see
the
crimson
banana-like
leaves
of
the
Delesseria
waving
in
their
darkest
corners;
and
the
purple
fibrous
tufts
of
Polysiphonia
and
Ceramia,
‘fine
as
silkworm’s
thread.’
But
there
are
many
others
which
give
variety
and
impart
beauty
to
these
tide-pools.
The
broad
leaves
of
the
Ulva,
finer
than
the
finest
cambric,
and
of
the
brightest
emerald-green,
adorn
the
hollows
at
the
highest
level,
while,
at
the
lowest,
wave
tiny
forests
of
the
feathery
Ptilota
and
Dasya,
and
large
leaves,
cut
into
fringes
and
furbelows,
of
rosy
Rhodymeniæ.
All
these
are
lovely
to
behold;
but
I
think
I
admire
as
much
as
any
of
them,
one
of
the
commonest
of
our
marine
plants,
Chondrus
crispus.
It
occurs
in
the
greatest
profusion
on
this
coast,
in
every
pool
between
tide-marks;
and
everywhere—
except
in
those
of
the
highest
level,
where
constant
exposure
to
light
dwarfs
the
plant,
and
turns
it
of
a
dull
umber-brown
tint—
it
is
elegant
in
form
and
brilliant
in
colour.
The
expanding
fan-shaped
fronds,
cut
into
segments,
cut,
and
cut
again,
make
fine
bushy
tufts
in
a
deep
pool,
and
every
segment
of
every
frond
reflects
a
flush
of
the
most
lustrous
azure,
like
that
of
a
tempered
sword-blade.”—
GOSSE’S
Devonshire
Coast,
pp.
187–
189.
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