the Brltjjb Fuci, with particular Defer iptions of each Species. 1 85 



main branch, fometimes double or treble on a little one, and not 

 un frequently terminal. 



The frond appears fometimes to have roundifh branches, fo as 

 fcarcely to juftify our placing it in this divifion — but they are gene- 

 rally comprefTed, the upper ones always fo in a greater or lefs de- 

 gree. 



44. FUCUS CORONOPIFOLIUS. 



F. fronde cartilaginea ramofiflima, ramulis obtufis multifidis 

 fub-confertis ; tuberculis globofis pedunculatis, fefiilibufque. 

 Herb. Buddie, p. 12. «. 1. — P ether, p. 25. n. 3. 

 Fucus coronopi facie. R. Syn. p. 45. n. 23. 

 Habitat in rupibus fubmarinis Dorfetiae, Devonian et Cornubia?. 

 " Adhasret rupibus callo paullulum explanato — From 4 — 6 uncia- 

 lis, cartilaginea, comprefTa, fub-diaphana, ftatim in ramos pluri- 

 mos divifa — Rami faspius alterni, nonnunquam dichotomi, apicem 

 verfus tenuiores — £tf;7z#// numerofiflimi, plerumque conferti, lineares 

 apicibus obtufis — anguli ramificationum totius planrae femper ob- 

 tufi funt — Fruclifcatio, tubercula minutiflima, modo feflilia, mod6 

 pedunculata, in ramulis extremis fita, atro-purpurea — Color ex ru- 

 bro p'^purafcens. 



That the plant now defcribed is the Fucus coronopi facie of R. Syn. 

 has been afecrtained from the examination of Buddie's Hortus 

 Siccus, where the original fpecimen gathered by Mr. Stevens on the 

 coaft of Cornwall is preferved. We have alfo received fpecimens 

 from the fame coaft, correfponding exactly with that above men- 

 tioned. 



The Fucus cartilagineus of Hudfon fhould, from his reference to 

 Ray's Synopfs, be this plant; but as his fpeciiic character is taken 



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