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the Britijh Fuci, with particular Defer iptions of each Species. 19 5 



We have never obferved any kind of fructification in this fpe- 

 cies, and it is very doubtful whether it be really a Fucus ; if not, 

 it certainly has more affinity with fome plants at prefent placet! in 

 the genus Uha, than with any of the Conferva, It very much re- 

 fembles the Uha jjftuhf* of the Flora Anglica, particularly in a youn^ 

 ftate, but differs in its much more extended growth, by beino- left 

 tender and fragile, and, moft of all, from the internal annuli, which 

 are never obfervable in the latter plant. 



It may be proper to obferve, that the reference in Sp. PI. to Am. 

 Acad. p. 259. /. %.f 2. is erroneous; what is there deicribed being 

 Fucus Tendo, a production now well known to belong to the ani- 

 mal and not to the vegetable kingdom. — This fpecies is fometimoi 

 met with extremely twifted. 



51. FUCUS TOMENTOSUS, 



F. fronde filiformi ramofiffima tomentofa ; ramis dichotomis 



apicibus angulifque obtufis. Herb. Buddie, p. 34. n. 5. opt. 



Petiver, p. 42. n. 5. opt. Marfan, Hf. Ox. 3./.15. /. 8. f. 7. 



Petiver, Gaz, t. 4.7C 12. 

 Spongia dichotomos teretifolia viridis. R. Syn. p. 29. n. 3. 

 comprefTa ex viridi-fplendens. R, Syiu 



p. 29. n. 4. 

 F. tomentofus. Fl. Ang.p. 584. 

 F. elongatus. Withering^ 'vol. 3. p. 251. Stackhoufe, Ner. Britt. 



p. 21. /. 7. 



Habitat in Infula Portlandia?, fed rarius — prope Exmouth — prope 

 Plymouth, et per totum littus Cornubienfe auftrale; frequens nullibi. 



Radix nulla nifi bads frondis paululum explanata — From 4 — 6 

 vmcialis, filiformis, vix ac ne vix comprefTa, craflltie pennse anferi- 



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