126 , Mr, TyRf^ER's De/cn'pms of 



four plants to which it is my object, in the prefent paper, to call tiie 

 attention of the Linnsean Society, and of which two only can pro- 

 perly be faid to be either altogether new, or even veiy uncommon; 

 there beinsT little doubt but the others will be found to be fufficientlv 

 abundant, at lead upon the eaftern lliore of England, where tb.eir 

 having remained fo long unnoticed has arifen only from their 

 having been regarded as varieties of fome of their congeners, to 

 which they are in reality very nearly allied. From thefe authors I 

 fliould not now venture fo openly to differ, or rather (hould exprefs 

 my fcntiments with far greater diffidence, were not the plants w^hich 

 1 have undertaken to defcribe, and upon which I trufl that future 

 inveftigators will confirm my decifion, efpecially natives of the Yar- 

 mouth beach; and had not my attention been particularly diredcd 

 to them, from almoft the earlieft period that I have made the marine 

 algce my ftudy, by my infl:ru6lor and coadjutor Mr. Wigg, upon 

 whofe knowledge of them the Society have heard too much from 

 more able as well as more eminent botanifls, to make it neceflary 

 for me in any wife to enlarge. 



I had propofed to myfelf to extend this paper to a greater length 

 than my contracted leilure will now admit, and, among other 

 plants, to have included in it a figure of Fucus fruticulofus of 

 Jacquin, which, in company with Mr. Sowerby, I found not unfre- 

 quently upon the fliores of the more weftern counties; the excel- 

 lent account however of this plant, given by the Baron de Wulfen, 

 made fuch an intention ufelefs; and I am now induced to mention 

 the circumftancc, only from a fear that my having abandoned the 

 idea may have been the caufe of leading my friend, iVIr. Stackhoufc, 

 into error, «s, 1 undcrftand that, in the third fn-fciculus of his Nereis, 

 the appearance of which may foon be expected, he has declined fi- 

 guring this fpecies from an idea that it would previoufiy be done 

 by me. 



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