the Brit'ijh Fuel, with particular Dcftriptkns (f each Species. icq 



actual fructification is noticed by Linnaeus, though he ftill feemS 

 to have conlidered the veficles as performing that function. It 

 confifts of fmall, naked, paniculated ramuli, not more than half -ait 

 inch in length, fituated in the bofom of the leaves, and entirely 

 covered with minute tubercles: or thefe may probably be merely 

 congeries of tubercles afTuming that form ; as thefe panicled 

 branches are never obferved, except when the plant is in fructifica- 

 tion, nor otherwife than covered with tubercles. The veficles are 

 often naked ; but fometimes they are terminated by a fetaceous or 

 fubulate procefs reTembling a ftyle, which is nothing more than 

 the footftalk continued beyond the veficle. Many interefting par- 

 ticulars relating to this extraordinary plant, collected from various 

 authors, are mentioned by Gmelin; for which we refer the curious 

 reader to that work, as it would occupy too much room, and be fo- 

 reign to our defign to record them here. 



Lourreir in his Fl. Cochinchinenfis fpeaks of this plant. He advances 

 nothing new upon the fubjecl:. Indeed he feems to know but little 

 of this genus, having noticed only {even fpecies. 



2. FUCUS SANGUINEUS. 



F. caule tereti ramofo, foliis fimplicibus ovato-oblongis obtufis 

 undulatis integerrimis. Herb, Linn. 

 Mor. Hift. Oxon. 3. p. 645. f. 1$. t. 8. f. 6. R. Syn. p. 47. 

 n. 35. Fl. Dan. 349. Gmelin, p. 185. t. 24. f. 2. Linn. 

 Syjl. FL Ang. p. 573. FL Scot, p, 942. Withering, vol. 3. 

 A 235. 

 Habitat in rupibus et faxis marinis. 



Adhaeret rupibus callo folido difformi — From femipedalis, etiam 

 pedalis, purpurea, diaphana— Caulis brevis, teres, pro magnitudine 



plantar 



