are cylindrical and fhort, but in the whirled ramuli the length is generally four 

 or five times greater than the thicknefs, and they are flightly contracted at the 

 lower and thickened at the upper end. On the older branches, particularly about 

 the root, they are frequently fwollen, and aflume more or lefs of a globular 

 appearance, in the fame manner but more ftrikingly fo than in C. littoralis. 

 The fructification has not yet been difcovered. 



The figure given by Schmidel of this plant in his journey, above quoted, is fo 

 excellent, that it is hardly poflible it ihould be miftaken ; but though Dr. Roth 

 vefers to this figure, and even fays that his fpecimen comes from Schmidel's her- 

 barium, yet as he defcribes the whirled branches as constantly fimple, I have 

 thought it right to quote him with a mark of doubt. I have referred C. multifida 

 of Hudfon, as well as his C. imbricata, to this fpecies, on the authority of an 

 authentic fpecimen communicated by the Rev. Dr. Goodenough to D. Turner. 



In drying the juices collapfe into a red parenchymous line, and it adheres to 

 neither glafs nor paper. 



A. C. equifetifioli, natural fize. 



B. Ditto magnified 6, 



C. One of the whirled ramuli, ditto 2. 



