136 Mr, Turner's Defcripiions of four new Species of Fucus. 



fiUculis duplo vel triple longiores. Subftantia e cartllagineo ge- 

 latinofa, lubrica. Color totius plants fufco-ruber. 



A fin£;Ie fpecimen of this Fucns was found many years ago upon 

 the Yarmouth beach by Mr. Wigg, to vvhofe merit I feel a peculiar 

 pleafure in paying what I confider the mofl: public teftimony in my 

 power, by making it known to the botanical world under his name ; 

 and, as 1 think there cannot be the fmalleft doubt of its being 

 totally diftin6l, not only from every Englilli, but alfo from every 

 other Fucus hitherto known, I trufl: that, however uncouth the 

 appellation I have beftowed upon it, the Linnean Society will (hare 

 my feelings, and neverthelefs fufFer it under that title to defcend to 

 pofterity. Mr. Mafon and myfelf have fince gathered it, though 

 neither of us more than one plant, nor do I know that it was ever 

 feen in any other part of the kingdom. The place which naturally 

 belongs to it in the Britifh lift is immediately between F. peduncu- 

 latus and F. afparagoides ; but, as there is no fear of its being con- 

 founded with thofe or any other fpecies, and as I have in my fpecific 

 character included all the particulars refpeding it with which 1 am 

 acquainted, I fhall add no more upon the fubjecSt, except that the 

 pods containing the feeds feem to be, as in F,fnucjus^ laciniatus^ and 

 many others, merely cxtenfions of the frond, which, when their 

 office is fulfilled, ftart forth into new branches. 



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