The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner • Paragraph 979
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And in fact they do so. Every one must have noticed a green stain which covers wet walls, stones, stucco, even marble statues, and especially tree bark in wet or damp situations. This is a minute green seaweed rejoicing in the name of Pleurococcus. It is a pretty object for the microscope.