I may further remark <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />that the <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">Macrocystis</hi> floats <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />over the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020731 https://www.geonames.org/4036776">Antarctic Ocean</placeName> in <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">detached</add> masses far larger than those <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of the <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u"><name type="plant">Sargassum</name></hi>, maintaining <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />equally an independent <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />life & growing; but always<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="2r" />presenting a different form <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />from the <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">attached</hi> specimens <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of the same <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant" key="algae">Algae</name>. – So also <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />in my voyage from the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0016294 https://www.geonames.org/3373404">Sargasso sea</placeName> northwards to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the Channels, I encountered <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u"><name type="plant">Fucus serratus</name></hi> & <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u"><name type="plant" key="Fucus nodosus">nodosus</name></hi>, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />living in mid-ocean & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />maintaining an independent <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Existence, just as the <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u"><name type="plant">Sargassum</name></hi> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />did – they had <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">no doubt</del> <add place="superlinear">probably</add> </subst> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />been drifted to that meridian <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />from the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001698 https://www.geonames.org/7729890"><choice> <abbr>N.</abbr> <expan>North</expan> </choice> America</placeName>n coast <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">was</del> <add place="superlinear">were</add> </subst> not uncommon.