1 98 Dr. Goodenough and Mr. Wood w a r d\>* Obferoationt on 



are ; and perhaps that circumftance influenced his judgment. At 

 the time in which he wrote, that appearance had greater force 

 than perhaps it deferved. 



We have never yet feen it in fructification : could that be found, 

 we fhould have fure grounds for our determination. 



This is by no means an uncommon plant. It may be found on 

 moft rocky fhores. Its beautiful red colour, and its extremely dif- 

 fufe and divaricated habit, render the inveftigation of it perfectly 

 eafy. Under a glafs, and even to the naked eye fometimes, the 

 branches appear jointed with very fliort joints. — They are always 

 lharp-pointed. In a recent date it is of a fine lively red : in drying, 

 it becomes quite of a dark or black red colour. 



53. FOCUS TUBERCULATUS. 



F. fronde nliformi dichotoma ; ramis inaequalibus obtufis apice 

 tuberculatis, angulis ramificationum obtufis. R. Syn.p. 43. 

 ». 13. FL Ang. p. 588. 

 F. bifurcatus. Withering* vol. 3. p. 257. t. 17*/. I. 

 Habitat in rupibus marinis in Infula Portlandiae — Ilfracombe in 

 agro Devon. — St. Ives in agro Cornub. 



Adhaeret fortiter rupibus callo explanato — Frons teres filiformis, 

 craflitie penna? corvinae 2 — nuncialis & ultra, erccta, glabra, oli- 

 vacea — cito fit dichotoma, angulis obtufis, ramis ramulifque inasqua- 

 libus — Dichotomize variant pro magnitudine plantar 1-2-3 pluri- 

 ma: — Fruclificatio, femina obtufa in apicibus ramulorum tubercu- 

 latorum inclufa. 



This fpecies is fufficiently diftinct from all its affinities : from 

 lumbrkaliSffaftigiatus and radiatus, by.having its branches of unequal 



lengths? 



