the Britj/b Fttci, with particular Defer tptlons of each Specie* 20-5 



fiunt plantx — From teres, filiformis, fub-diaphana purpurea, 4 — 6 

 uncialis, craflitie fili em pore tic i minoris, dichotoma, ramofa, angulis 

 ramificationum obtufioribus — Ramorum furnmitates attenuate!, 

 acutiflimae — FruStiJJeatio, tubercula hemifphrerica verrucoia, magni- 

 tudine feminis rapi, diftantia, ad latera ramorum. 



This fpecies is unnoticed in the Flora Anglica, but is certainly 

 mentioned by Ray as a variety of lumbricalis> Syn. p. 45. n. 24 ad 

 finem — * banc fpeciem cufn nodulis fol'idis per intervalla mediis cauliculis 

 * et ramulis innafcentibus obfervavit rever. vir D. ALumingbam.' — This 

 defcription clearly points out the preient plant. From Gmclin's 

 defcription of his F. rotundus we have no doubt of this being his 

 plant ; but the figure is bad, reprefenting the fummits very ihort 

 and very obtufe, which in the growing plant arc extremely acute. 

 The tubercles are well reprefented as they appear in the dry, not in 

 the recent plant — but we have never obferved them fo near the 

 fummits of the branches; from which, and from the fhort blunt 

 terminations, it is probable the figure was taken from a fpecimen 

 in which the extremities were broken off by the waves. 



The plant, when growing, expands in a radiated or umbellnted 

 form, and has blunt angles ; whence the rounded appearance of 

 thofe angles when dry. The dichotomy is more exact in this fpe- 

 cies than in any of its affinities, the correfponding branches gene- 

 rally dividing very regularly at the fame height. The perfect tu- 

 bercles when recent, are of a pale pink or fleih colour, rough on the 

 furface,and are extremely refemhling to the head of the Spha?ria 

 entomorrhha as reprefented in Dickfon's plate Crypt, fafc. 1. /. $.f. 4. 

 — In this ftate the feeds, which are of a full bright red colour, may- 

 be difcerned with a good common eye-glafs. When the plant is 

 dry, the tubercles acquire the fame colour as the reft of the plant. 



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