142 Dr. Goodenough and Mr. Woodward** Obfervatkns on 



Bauhin's defcription is very fatisfaclory. 

 Both fpccies are eaten, as indeed are other Fuel. 

 Tetragonus is found on the rocks in the Iile of Man ; teres on the 

 rocks out at fea near Holyhead in the Ifle of Anglefey. 



20. Fucus alatus. 



F. fronde membranacea tenerrima ramofa fubdichotoma. 

 Herb, Buddie, p. 12. n. 2. 6. P ether, p. 25. n. 4. Gmelin\ 

 p. 187. /. 25. f. 1, 2. PL Dan. t. 352. R. Syn. p. 44. n. 20. 

 Linn. Mant. 135. Fl. Ang. p. 578. Fl. Scot. p. 951. Wither- 

 ing, vol. 3. p. 243. 

 Habitat in rupibus, faxis et tignis fubmarinis paflim. 

 Racix callus expanfus — Caules plurimi, omnes alati, ab eadem 

 radice oriuntur, qui fub ipfo ortu ramofi hunt, et faspius dicho- 

 tomi — Subft.mtia omnino tenera — Ramuli diflichi alterni, et pra: 

 membrana per totam plantam connexa, decurrere videntur — Apices 

 ipfi ramorum ramulorumque a tuberculis omnino immunes ; 

 variant integri et bifidi, obtufi et acutiufculi, pro setate et loco 

 — Fruclificatio, tubercula parva rotunda apicem ramulorum verfus 

 nervo adhaerentia — Color omnino amoeniffimus, modo virefcens 

 nervo rubro, modo omnino ruber. 



Rami variant latitudine { lin. — \ unciales et ultra — Altitudo 

 I — 5 uncialis. 



Our fpecific defcription is fully fufficient to diftinguiih this 

 plant; for no other in this divifion has a thin membranaceous 

 pellucid fubftance. Its beauty makes the moft incurious obferver 

 notice it. 



21. Fucus 



