13^ £>•« Goodenough <*W iWr, Woodward^ 03/ervaticns an 



tigua fubimbricata, per extremes ramulos confita, bafi foliorum vix 

 majora — 5W^/tf«//tfcai"tilaginca — Color i ecentis olivaceus, ficcata^ nigei. 



F. granulatus, ericcides> and felaginoides, approach fa near to each 

 other, that it requires the utmoft attention to keep them feparate. 

 — Ericoides is of low ftature, erect like a little (limb, and very bufhy ; 

 and the tubercles are cluttered at the ends of the ramuli like grapes. 

 — Gramilatus and Jelaginoides are of tall and more infirm growth. 

 Of thefe, felaginoides has its tubercles folitary, and fomewhat diftant, 

 at the bafe of the leaves of the extreme branches ; but granulatus 

 has them contiguous, and fet clofe all along the extreme branches, 

 and even part of the greater branches. The leaves in all are 

 fubulate and acute, but vary in proportion to the fize of the tu- 

 bercle. — In felaginoides they are four times larger, in ericoides twice as 

 large, and in granulatus not much larger. We have never feen it in 

 a growing (late, but have found it along with ericoides and felagi* 

 noides wafhed on the fhore at North Yarmouth. 



The leaves in all thefe fpecies are very liable to fall off; in this 

 ftate the fructification affords clear marks of diftinction. F. bar- 

 batus alfo comes very near to ericoides when thus mutilated ; but 

 the branches are ufually dichotomous and always entire, whereas 

 in ericoides they are very ramofe, and bent in fomewhat an angular 

 or zigzag direction. 



15. FUCUS SELAGINOIDES. 



F. fronde filiformi flexuofa ramofiffima ; foliis fubulatis remo- 

 tiufculis ; vefkuiis foliorum fuperiorum bafi innatis. Herh 

 Linn. Buddie, p. 19. n, 1, & p. 39. n. 5, Old fpecimens. 



Fucus 



