Tj6 Dr. Goodenough and Mr. Woodward'/ Obfervations on 



It will always be diflinguiihed by its dilated branches with acute 

 points, even when not in a ftate of frucliri cation. The breadth of 

 the branches varies from a line to half an inch. The colour is 

 fometimes of a line bright red — mod commonly of a dark red 

 brown. The plant varies in height from two to five inches. 



In our var. ft the branches it is true are very numerous, but not 

 more fo (notwith (landing Mr. Lightfoot afTerts otherwife) than in 

 var. a. The whole frond is about four inches high ; the branches 

 are all nearly of an equal breadth, from \ a line to \ of an inch. 

 The dilatation of the frond takes place in this alfo ; but from the 

 extreme narrownefs of the branches, it is difcernible only by atten- 

 tive obfervation. 



40. Fucus loreus. 



F. fronde dichotoma acuta, glabra utrinque tuberculata. Herb, 

 Linn. Buddie, p. 20. Petiver, p. 35. n. I. Uvedale, app. 

 />. 87. R. Syn. p. 43. n. 11 arid 15. Ger. em. p. 1568. f. 5. 

 Act. Gall. 17 1 2. p. 24. pL 1. f. 2. ubi cum floribus feminibuf- 

 qne depingitur. Act. Gail. 1771. partie 1. pi. 3. f, 14. y. 

 Fl. Dan. t. 710. Gent. Mag. 1756./. 64. 

 F. elongatus. Linn. Sp. Pi. 1627. Syn. Mor. exclufo. 

 F. loreus. Linn. Syji. Nat. Fl. Ang. p. 583. Fl. Scot. p. 920. 



Withering^ vol. 3. p. 250. 

 Var. (i inxqualis — fronde plana latiore incequali, angulis dicho- 

 tomic obtufioribus. Act. Gall. 1772. partie 2. pi. 4. f. 18. 

 Habitat — « in Infula Portlandica, et in littore auftrali frequens. 

 /3 inter rejectamenta maris apud Yarmouth in Norfolcia legimus. 



Adhczret fortiter rupibus callo explanato unciali — Stipes teres, un- 

 cialis, craflitie pcnnas cygnana?, dein in difcum concavum pezizae- 



formem 



