Eel-Grass Family:-
Eel-Grasses or Grass-Wracks are " the only flowering plants that grow completely submerged in the sea, looking at low tide like patches of grass or green seaweed. Unlike seaweeds, however, they have roots. They are all perennials, with alternate, long, narrow, grass-like leaves. Their inconspicuous flowers are petalless, and reduced to 1 anther or 1 style with 2 stigmas, alternate in 2 flat rows, partly enclosed in sheaths, towards the bottom of some of the lower leaf-like branches. Male and female flowers are separate on the same plant." from Collins Pocket Guide to Wild Flowers by David McClintock and R.S.R. Fitter assisted by Francis Rose - ISBN 0 00 219363 9 - Eleventh Impression 1978
Eel-Grass Family plant table with its Common Name - Botanical Name. Flowering Months Range. Habitat with link to that Wild Flower Habitat Gallery:-
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Narrow-leaved Eel-Grass
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Zostera hornemanniana
(Zostera angustifolia)
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June onwards
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This is a perennial which grows on sheltered tidal mudflats, in estuaries and in coastal lagoons, usually in shallower, more turbid water than Z. marina. It is usually found on mud or muddy sands, between the half-tide and low-tide marks. Lowland. Article on Zostera from Journal of Ecology.
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Over 300 accounts of the Flora of the British Isles have been published in Journal of Ecology.
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Jellicles Part 3
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot, Second Impression published by Faber and Faber Limited in November Mcmxxxix.
The Song of the Jellicles - Part 3:-
- Jellicle Cats come out to-night,
Jellicle Cats come one come all:
The Jellicle Moon is shining bright--
Jellicles come to the Jellicle Ball.
Jellicle Cats are white and black,
Jellicle Cats are of moderate size;
Jellicles jump like a jumping-jack;
Jellicle Cats have moonlight eyes.
They're quiet enough in the morning hours,
They're quiet enough in the afternoon,
Reserving their terpsichorean powers
To dance by the light of the Jellicle Moon.
Jellicles Part 4
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World Atlas of Seagrassesby Edmund P. Green and Frederick T. Short - "a group of about sixty species of underwater marine flowering plants, grow in the shallow marine and estuary environments of all the world's continents except Antarctica. The primary food of animals such as manatees, dugongs, and green sea turtles, and critical habitat for thousands of other animal and plant species, seagrasses are also considered one of the most important shallow-marine ecosystems for humans, since they play an important role in fishery production. Though they are highly valuable ecologically and economically, many seagrass habitats around the world have been completely destroyed or are now in rapid decline. The World Atlas of Seagrasses is the first authoritative and comprehensive global synthesis of the distribution and status of this critical marine habitat. "
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