of a dark color, and divide the filaments into joints, whofe length does not 

 exceed their thicknefs. The fructification which is drawn at F. from a dried 

 fpecimen in the Herbarium of my friend D. Turner, confifts of globular feflile 

 capfules on the branches. 



For fome time I had confidered the plant figured at C. as a diftindt fpecies, 

 and have diftributed a few fpecimens of it under the name of C. halecina. Iu 

 this opinion I was joined by my much lamented friend the late Col. Velley, 

 who had gathered it near Weymouth, but I have fince feen fome fpecimens in 

 which the branches from the fame root have fo materially varied in the difpofi- 

 tion of their ramuli, as to convince me that it is a mere variety of the prefent 

 fpecies. In this ftate it approaches fome of the varieties of C. littoralis, but 

 may be readily diftinguifhed by its divaricated ramuli and more rigid nature. 

 The fpecimen figured at B. was fent me by my highly refpecled friend James 

 Brodie, Efq. M.P. who gathered it near Forres in Elginfhire; where as alfo in 

 other parts of the North, the pinnas appear to be generally more regularly 

 difpofed, than in the Southern parts of Britain. In Ireland the plant attains a 

 larger fize than in England, as may be feen by the drawing at E. for which, 

 and for that at F. I am indebted to the pencil of W. I. Hooker, Efq. of 

 Norwich. 



In drying it adheres, though not very firmly, to both glafs and paper. 



A. C. pennata, natural fize. 



B. Ditto, magnified 3. 



C. Variety of ditto 3. 



D. C. pennata, 1. 



E. Irifli fpecimen, natural fize. 



F. Specimen in fruit, magnified 2. 



