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Show Land Graet at Sea. Fringing the pools left by tlie receding reced-ing tide may frequently be seen the long strands of a green weed. Its leaves, which look like so many ribbons, rib-bons, are less than half an Inch Jn width, though often they are three or four feet In length. This particular particu-lar weed Is called grass-wrack, and. strange to say, it Is not really a seaweed sea-weed at all. It is a land plant which for some reason has taken to a marine ma-rine life. If you examine it carefully you will find real flowers growing upon It, each encased in a kind of sheath formed by one of the shorter leaves. No proper seaweed blossoms in this way. Why It should have chosen to go to the sea Instead of remaining on land no one can say, but probably it found that it was easier to live under water than on dry land. In some places It is so common that It Is harvested like hay, and Is used, after It has been dried, Instead of straw for packing glass, china and other delicate objects. |