the Britjjh Fuel, with particular Defc rip t tons of each Species, j 49 



violence of the waves : the branches, where entire, are ufually 

 fomething more than j of an inch broad— the ends of them are 

 much fwelled, and not quite blunt. This variety gives much 

 trouble in drying, owing to the great quantity of mucilage in the 

 ends of the branches : when dry, the ends often appear more acute 

 than they are in their freih ftate. 



Ray mentions it as being very common near Chicheiter. We 

 have found it frequently in feveral places on the fouth coaft. 



We cannot help remarking upon the name of this plant. One 

 would imagine that it was conftantly and fingularly fpiral : that is 

 by no means the cafe ; for it is often found perfectly plain. Alt 

 the varieties of vejiculcfus occafionally affect a fpiral growth : the 

 diffufe divaricatus is not exempt from it — fo that the name is not 

 exclufively applicable to this fpecies. It is known moft furely by 

 its extremities being fwelled and obtufe, and being free from blad- 

 ders. Thefe are its conftant diftin&ion : its fpirality is accidental* 



24. FuCUS CERANOIDES. 



F. fronde plana dichotoma integerrima aiquali, apicibus tumi- 

 diufculis tuberculatis lanceolatis. Herb, Linn, Buddie, p, 6, 

 n. 3. Buddie & Vernon, p. 21. n. 4. 

 F. filiformis. Gmelin,p. 72. t. 1. A.f. I. 

 F. ceranoides. Linn. Sp, PL 1626. 

 F. linearis. Fl, Ang, p. 578. 



F. diflichus. Fl. Scot. p. 912. Withering, vol. 3./. 242. 

 Habitat in rupibus et faxis fubmarinis prope Chriftchurch in-agrc 

 Hantonienfi. 



Radix, callus parvus expanfus — Frons 3-uncialis — fefquipedalis, 

 alata, angufta, plana, dichotoma, veficularum expers; ab ipfo fere 



ortu 



