i go Dr. Goodenough and Mr, Woodward^ Obfavatiom on 



A confiderable variation of appearance is obfervable in the ex- 

 treme ramifications, which are oppofite, ufually naked at the bafe, 

 and pinnated at the fummit ; but are fometimes alternately fhort 

 and long, the (hotter being Tubulate, and either entire or finely 

 toothed, and the oppofite one pinnated, with fubulate proceffes. 



The figure in FL Dan. reprefents the larger fpecimens of this 

 plant, but without the delicacy obfervable in the original. F. plu- 

 mo/us of Gmelin is moft probably our plant; but fome little doubt 

 cannot but arife from the ramuli being defcribed as fub-articulate ; 

 which feems rather to point it out to be Conferva plumofa, as we 

 have never obierved the fmalleft appearance of articulations in the 

 plant now defcribed. 



47. Fucus NODOSUS. 



I 



F. fronde fubdichotoma, foliis diftichis obovatis, integer- 

 rimis ; veficulis innatis folitariis fronde latioribus. Herb. 

 Linn. Buddie, p. 13. opt. P ether, p. 3 5- Uvedale, p. 3*. 

 Gmelin, U 1. B. f. 1. FL Dan, 146. Hijl. Ox. f. 15. /. 8. N 

 f. 2. Reaumur, A51. Gall. 1 71 1, p. 26. t. 2. f. 3. Linn. Sp. 

 PL 1628. FL AngL 584. FL Scot. 918. Withering, v. 3. 

 p. 251. Ray. Syn. p. 48. n. 41. 

 Habitat in littoribus Britannicis ubique. 



Radix callus expanfus crafTiffimus. Frondes plurimse e radice ori- 

 nntur, lineares comprefTas craffae. Divifura ramorum varia, plerum- 

 que autem dichotoma. Folia difticha, gemina vel plura obovata 

 iutegerrioia, in petiolum attenuata, unde aliquantulum fpatulata, 

 tandem mucofa intumefcunt & tuberculis numerofis repleta funt. 

 Vefwula: ellipticae, ovatse, folitarias, diftantes, caule ramifque innataz, 

 & his bis terve latiores. Color recentis plants olivaceus, ficcatasni- 



ger. 



