Flowerless plants; ferns, mushrooms, mosses, lichens, and seaweeds

SEA TANGLE
There is another order of brown seaweed which
grows to be very large. Belonging to this order are
the oarweeds, tangle, and sea colander.
The oarweeds have stout, woody stems, and broad,
tough, glossy leaves of a dark olive green. The large
fronds float like streamers in the water, while the
fishes swim in and out among them.
The sea colander has a round stem which becomes
flattened in the leaf, and extends through it like a
midrib. The frond has wavy edges. Its whole sur-
face is covered with holes, which give the plant its
name.
In the sea tangle the leaf is narrow and ribbonlike.
Its length is from three to thirty feet. It grows
at the end of a solid stem that is from three inches to
four feet long. The edge of the frond is much waved.
Through the center there is a band of sunken spots.
This seaweed is found on the northern shore of both
the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. Perhaps you
will like to read a poem about the little maid and her
sea tangle.
SEA TANGLE
"'Go show to earth your power!' the East Wind cried
Commanding; and the swift submissive seas,
In ordered files, like liquid mountains, glide,
Moving from sky to sky with godlike ease.
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