120 Dr. Ggodenough and Mr. Woodward'; Objervat'iom -on 



fhape of the leaves, and by the fructification, which in the two 

 latter is ufually on the leaves, but in this is very rarely found in 

 that fituation, but is fcattered on the lower branches where they 

 are deftitute of leaves. 



In a delcription given of this plant in a former volume of the 

 Linnasan Transactions, it is hinted that probably this fpecies and 

 ovalh ought rather to be placed in the divifion fronde tereti "■; and 

 moil certainly this in particular has great affinity with fome of the 

 plants in that divifion, the leaves being nearly of the fame fub- 

 ftance as the reft of the frond, and the tubercles being principally 

 fituared on the naked branches. But on more mature confide- 

 ration, we are convinced that avails cannot properly be ar- 

 ranged in any other divifion than the prefent, the fhape of the 

 leaves, and their fomewhat comprefTed furface, abfolutely forbid- 

 ding it ; and the very great affinity which fubfifls between dafy- 

 fby/lus, ovalis, and fedoides, requires that they lhould be placed to- 

 gether. This muft therefore be conudered as adding One more to 

 the numerous proofs of the impoffibility of confining the endlefs 

 variety of nature within the bounds of any artificial fyfiem. 



It grows, but not very abundantly, on the rocks and ftones at 

 Cromer on the coaft of Norfolk, and has been found on various 

 other parts of the Britifh coaft. 



8. FUCUS MEMBRANIFOLIUS. Tab. l6. Fig. I, 2. 



F. caule tereti ramofo apice membranaceo dilatato dichotomo 

 foliis enerviis fub-bilobis, tuberculis pedunculatia. 

 Var. |3 radiams — foliis bafi incraftatis fanguineis. Buddie^ p. 27 



n. 6. 

 Var. y lacer— foliis aequalibus fub-Iiuearibus. Buddie, p. 2j 7 n. 1.4. 



Mor. 



