126 Dr. Goodenough and Mr. Woodward'/ Obfervations on 



with a ftrong partition running up the middle, and clufters of feeds 

 adhering to the fides of the pods on the in fide. In the hollow 

 cellular pods, traces of this diffepiment or partition are to be 

 obferved ; one largifh and feveral very fmall filaments running 

 throughout longitudinally, and connecting all the cells. Whether 

 thefe cavities arife from their having fried their feeds, or from the 

 abortion of them, may be an object worthy of the attention of 

 thoie who have an opportunity of watching them through the 

 feveral ftages of their growth. It is obfervable that the leaves, as 

 they are called, have all a rib or nerve palling up the middle; 

 when the fructification takes place and the leaf fwells, this rib be- 

 •comes a partition line or diffepiment. 



The pods are very liable to be broken off by the force of the 

 waves. The plant often afTumes a very difguifed form from this 

 accident ; oftentimes not a fingle pod or leaf remains throughout 

 the whole frond. Here botanical experience afTumes its due con- 

 sequence. 



II. FuCUS ABROTANIFOLIUS. 



F. fronde filiformi-compreiTa pinnata, ramulis extremis veficu- 

 lofis, veliculis terminatis foliolis multipartitis obtufis. Herb. 

 Linn. 

 Linn. Sp. PI. 1629. FI. Ang. 575. 

 Habitat in mari Anglico. Leofiing. 



Radix . From filiformis aliquantulum comprefTa, craffi- 



tie pennae corvinse, femipedalis — Folia pinnata fub-alterna, pro fitu 

 varia ; inferiora fcilicet fimplicia, linearia, dentata ; dein pauca pin- 

 natifida ; cetera ramofifTima et fupradecompofita fegmentis filifor- 

 mibus— Folia fuperiora veficulofa funt, veficulis concatenatis, foliolis 

 1 multi- 



