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The Floral King. 135
most abundant of all plants in the world. It floats
on the water, and is best known to them who have.
visited the Indies, where it frequently covers the
sea for hundreds of miles, that it looks like a green
meadow. We know that where the aquatic plants
float with their leaves on the seas, reigns a constant
calm, just as it takes place when the whalers throw
oil on the boisterous billows, which then immediately
subside. The same way where Sargazo floats is a
continuous calm, so that mare pacificum from that
got its name.
‘*When water is allowed to remain still, it deposits
its sediment at the bottom, which forms clay, con-
sequently, where Sargazo lies in constant repose, the
water deposits the clay in great abundance, and fills
the bottom. Among the Sargazo exists other kinds
of birds, other kinds of fishes, viz.: those that have
floating eggs, and other kinds, Vermes, Cockles,
Conches, Medusa, &c., than those which are known
near the shores. These gradually die, when their
bodies sink down and are mixed with the clay.
When such are mixed with the clay which them-
selves are covered with chalk shells, they transform
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