Note 7 — Chapter XI
Reading edition
Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, vol. i, p. 363. It appears that seaweed grows extremely quick. Mr. Stephenson found (Wilson’s Voyage round Scotland vol. ii, p. 228) that a rock uncovered only at spring-tides, which had been chiselled smooth in November, on the following May, that is, within six months afterwards, was thickly covered with Fucus digitatus two feet, and F. esculentus six feet, in length.