I have searched in vain for <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />any more information about <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u"><name type="plant">Sargassum</name></hi>; & for experiments <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />upon its vitality in a basin of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />water. I shall however endeavor <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to settle the point by having <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />some specimens brought home <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />in a bucket of salt water, & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />sent to the salt-water Vivarium <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />in the <orgName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H1884631">Regent’s Park Zoological <lb />Gardens</orgName>. I cannot see any <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />difficulty in supposing that <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />this <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant" key="algae">Alga</name> maintains an inde<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />pendent existence, floating as <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />well as attached, as I know <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />that <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u"><name type="plant">Fucus servatus</name></hi>, <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u"><name type="plant" key="Fucus nodosus">nodosus</name></hi>,<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="2v" />& <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u"><name type="plant">Macrocystis pyrifera</name></hi> do.