*22 Dr. Goodenough and Mr. Woodward*/ Obfervations on 



properly from appearances which are not at all warranted by the 

 examination of the young and undamaged plants, and are folely 

 owing; to the approach of age and decay. The young plants are of 

 a yellowifh colour, and feme what tranfparent ; in age they become 

 black and opake. 



We have not met with it in a growing Hate, but have found it, 

 with all its varying appearances, amongft the rejectamenta on the 

 lhore at North Yarmouth. 



We have not yet had an opportunity of feeing it in fructifica- 

 tion. 



67. FUCUS PINASTROIDES. 



F. fronde filiformi ramofimma, ramulis ar£te imbricatis fu- 



bulatis fub-fecundis apice incurvatis integris. 

 Herb. Buddie y p. 18. n. 3. and /. 19. n. 4. R. Syn. p. 50. n. 46. 



Gmelin, p. 127. /. it. f. 1. 

 F. incurvus. FL Ang. p. 590. Withering^ vol. 3. /. 259. 

 HabHat in rupibus et fax is fub-marinis pafUm. 

 Radix fibrofa — Frons filiformis, fublignofa, atro-rubefcens, do- 

 drantalis vel femipedalis, craflitie pennse corvina?, ramofiffima — 

 Rami ramulis denfiffime imbricatis, fubulatis, rectiufculis, incurvis et 

 fub-fecundis veftiti — Frutlificatio, tubercula globofa magnitudine 

 feminis rapi, in ramulorum alis et ad latera, pedunculata et feflilia. 



This fpecies, one of the leaft elegant of the whole genus, is 

 eafily diftinguiihed from its affinities by its thicker and more 

 woody ftem, and its clofely imbricated branches, which, towards 

 the extremities, are thickened into a fcarcely diftinguifhable mafs. 



The whole flem, and the larger as well as the fmaller branches, 

 1 are 



