CRYPTOGAMIA, ALG. Ficis. D: (2) Flat; mide 93 
ribbed, PELLUCID. 
Stackh. 7-Gmel. 24. 2-Fl. dan. 349=Gies. i. 24H. ox. xv. 
8. row. 1.6, a ee 
Resembling the leaves of the Rumex sanguineus, in size as 
well as form. R. Sy. 49. Stem very short, ending in oblong 
spear-shaped leaves, very entire, waved at the edge, rounded at 
the end, furnished witha mid-rib which sends off lateral alternate 
veins ; from 3 inches to a foot in length, and from 3 to 2 inches 
in breadth’; pellucid, pale red purple. Gwexin fuc. 185, Fruc- 
tifications roundish, on fruit-stalks, blackish red, on the sides of 
_ the branches and ribs, of the size of rape seed. Huns. ». 3. 
Stem very short, woody, branched. Leaves mid-ribbed, ob- 
Jong, blunt, about 6 inches long and 12 inch broad, pellucid 
and thin as gold-beaters skin; .red, often with cross bars or 
stripes of a dull pinky yellow. Sracksouse *. 
Rocks and stones in the seas Yarmouth. Mount’s bay. 
Falmouth, P. Jan.—Dec. 
F. Leaves membranaceous, oblong, waved, indented ; ru/bens.. 
stalk cylindrical, branched»: s: : 
Stackh. 7—E. bot. 822—Fl. dan. 652=Gmelin 24, 1. 
Stem cylindrical, woody, branched, garnished with leaves of 
various sizes. Leaves on leaf-stalks, mid-ribbed, veined, scol- 
loped and indented, often fringed ; thin, pellucid ; colour pale 
pink, with tints of green and olive. The mid-rib of the larger 
leaves sends out smaller leaves. Stacxuouss. Fractifications, 
small red oblong substances, tapering down into fruit-stalks, 
placed on the stem or on the edges of the leaves. Within these 
substances, which in the microscope appear like processes issuing 
from the leaves, small red granulations may be seen. > 
_.- F, siauosus. E. bot.—Flor. dan. 652 has been quoted as this 
plant, but the leaves are much broader than in any specimens 
which I have seen, and Gmelin 24, 1, is very different, the 
branches are winged with oval leafits and terminated by an odd ° 
one. 
Common on our sea coasts. “2 Dec, Jan. 
F. Mid-ribbed, much branched : leaves. strap-spear- Hypoglos’- —- 
shaped, very entire: mid-rib proliferous. © _ sum. 
Linn, tr. ii. t. 7. 
About 2 or 3 inches high, membranaceous, extremely thin, 
va red. Fructification, Mave, vesicles the size of mustard 
d, dark red, placed on the nerve near the extremity of the 
* For more particulars of this and several other species to be noticed 
hereafter, see Neazis Barrawnica, ora botannical description of the Bri- 
ish marine plants, with coloured drawings from nature ; by John Stack- 
house, Esq. F. L. S. 1795. St 
