198 — Mr; Tun NER": Calendarium Plantarum marinarum. - 
ber, I neverthelefs flattermyfelf: with the hope that it may. have its 
ufe, by inducing the botanifts of diftant counties to beftow fome'at- 
tention upon this hégle&ed branch -of a favourite fubjeét, : For its 
accuracy, as far as it extends, I can with fafety vouch, as I have adb 
mitted nothing that has not been the refult of my own actual ob- 
fervation, either: upon Paci found along the Norfolk fhere, or upon 
a few which I have at'variots times received: ‘through; the medium 
of failors from the fouthern counties |! 
It now only remains for me to add, that a principal caufe of the 
imperfe&tion of the following Catalogue les in our being wholly 
"unacquainted with the fructification of many fpecies, as Fucus Jac- 
harinus, Filum; viridis, Bec. ‘together with almoft all the membra- 
naceous Ue, and a great proportion of the ‘Conferve ; which genus 
4 fhall hardly mention, as our knowledge of the fpecies is at prefent 
fo imperfect, that it requires more than: ordinary fortune to find 
two botanifts bid Ere in d to the fame ee the fame 
` “name, tud. cS Simi niit stiesdaboqa Pe Ssh etr 
du Mp i SE LA n A 
T IO "HICINUISTHTOUTEHEERONUT 
à ge Esc “ry 
February 10, 1799. 3 | CARMEN 
* This, Fucus, figured in the Flora Danica, tab, 886, was, I I believe, "T pedem io. 
be : a native of Great Britain by Sir Thomas Frankland, Bart, A. L.S. and i is. 'occafionally 
. gathered upon the Yarmouth beach. It deferves to be remarked, that when frefh- it is 
of a beautiful orange colour, which it lofes after having been a fhort time expofed to the 
air, and becomes of a pale Gà greens — in frefh water — mine: 
foadarkbrown. >- Deoh uE i g 
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