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are covered with fubulate.rj/««// ; and though they furround every 

 part, yet, as they all turn upwards, they have the appearance of 

 growing from one fide only. — Thefe are of various lengths, from 

 one line to half an inch, and have frequently, when examined by a 

 flrong light, efpecially before they have been long expofed to the 

 air, and are become mrivelled, the appearance of joints or pie* 

 &\i\\axy fepta, proving this plant to be nearly allied to the Conferva. 

 The fructification is notwithstanding certainly that oizFucus. — It is 

 found only amongfr. the extreme branches, and conhfts of globular 

 tubercles, about the fize of turnip-feed, moftly axillary, and fup- 

 ported on peduncles about half a line in length, but fometimes la- 

 teral; and, in this fituation, both feflile and pedunculated. The 

 colour of the recent plant is dark red, but, when dry, it is entirely 

 black. 



It adheres by its fibrous bafe to the rocks, and is found upon 

 almoft every fhore. 



68. FUCUS LYCOPODIOIDES* 



F. fronde filiformi fub-fimplici, ramis fubulatis fub-ramofis- 



undique imbricatis fquarrofis. 

 Unn. Syft. Nat. 717. Retz. FL Scand. Prod, ed. 1, n, 169G. 

 Conferva fquarrofa. Fl. Dan, t, 357. 

 Inter rejectamenta maris apud Yarmouth in Norf. invenimus. 

 Radix callus minutus vix expanfus — From 6-uncialis et ultra, fili- 

 formis, craflitie pennae corvina?, modo fimplex, modo ramis perpaucis 

 inftru&a, radicem verfus nuda, dein ufque ad apicem ramulis brevi- 

 bus fubulatis 3 obtufiufculis fquarrofis fubramofis undique dense Im- 



bricata 



