134 2fc Goodekough and Mr* WoodwaedV Ohfervziions on 



venes before another veficle occurs ; but this intervention deftroys his 

 law of vegetation. However, it muft be allowed that the terminal 

 leaves are all loaded with a velicle at their bafe, which veficles as 

 they are enlarged become contiguous. 



The flendernefs of its habit, its lax appearance, the zigzag 

 growth of the branches (occafioned poflibly by the protrufion of 

 the leaves, which, after all, perhaps may be rathe** rudiments of 

 branches than leaves, and thus occafion fuch revuifions), then the 

 leaves being all alternate, adfcendent, and remote to a certain de- 

 gree from each other, and at the end of the branches loaded with a 

 veficle at the bafe, many times larger and broader than the leaf 

 itfelf, keep it fufficiently diftincl:. 



It appears to us that thefe leaves are in fac~l new branches, it 

 being eafy to trace thofe at the bafe of the branches into ramifica- 

 tion. At the top of the branches where thefe leaf-like rudiments 

 cannot go into farther divifion, there the veficle is formed. Thus 

 no part is ufelefs ; the plant is as much enlarged, and as fruitful, as 

 the law of nature defigned it. 



l6. FUCUS FOENICULACEUS. 



F. fronde filiformi ramofiflirna ; ramis fub-dichotomis ; foliis 



fubulatis aequalibus ; veficulis oblongis concatenates innatis. 



Herb. Linn. P ether, p. 34, ». 4, 5, 6. Buddie, p. 15. n, 2, 3. 



Sep. 39. n. 3. 



Reaumur, Adl. Gall. 171 2. /. 3. f. 5. Linn. Sp. PI. 1629. 



Fucus concatenatus. Fl. Ang. 574. Fl. Scot. 923. Withering, 



vol. 3. p. 237. Velley, t. 2. f. 1. 

 Habitat apud Weymouth Junio, Julio. 



Radix callus crafrus vix expanfus — From fpithamsea vel pedalis, 



teres 



