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turns to a dull dirty brown. In their ftru&ure when examined with a 

 microfcope they however exactly agree, as well as in the fruit, which has 

 been difcovered in the former fubfequently to its publication in this work, 

 and confifts of fmall ovate dark red capfules, feffile, or nearly fo on the 

 upper branches. 

 159.* fibrata. C. filis ramofis, venofis, rubicundis ; ramis dichotomis ; ramulis 

 fub-fafciculatis, apice fibris pellucidis obfellis ; articulis caulis longis, ramu- 

 lorum diametrum longitudine tequantibus. T. G. 



On Marine Algx, near Forres ; Mr. Brodie. At Cawfie, Murrayfhire ; 

 Mr. Hooker and Mr. Borrer. 



The filaments, which grow to the length of about two inches, are 

 branched with repeated dichotomies, and ftrongly marked with longitudi- 

 nal veins. Their fummits are fringed with numerous, long, extremely 

 flender, dichotomous, tranfparent fibres, of which from their extreme 

 tenuity, it is almoft impoffible, efpecially in a dried fpecimen, to afcertain 

 the ftru&ure, but they, I think undoubtedly are of the fame nature with 

 thofe of C. barbata. Befides an appearance of capfules in the dried fpeci- 

 mens now before me, I alfo obferve feveral mafles of loofe jelly, imbedding 

 numerous pyriform feeds, and furrounded by a few fhort fegments re- 

 fembling an involucrum. I at firft fuppofed that the fructification is nearly 

 of the fame nature with that of C. corallina, and that the appearance of 

 capfules is occafioned by the involucrum being compactly clofed over the 

 jelly to protect the yet unripe feeds, but Mr. Borrer fays, " When I 

 examined it frefh with Mr. Hooker, at Brodie, we faw the capfules as we 

 thought them, fplitting at the apex (I think into four fegments) but it 

 never {truck me that they were any thing analogous to the involucrum of 

 C. Corallina." In another fpecimen now before me there are no capfules, 

 but many of the joints are fvvollen, and each of thefe includes a dark 

 colored globule, fimilar to thofe obfervable in many other Confervx. At 



