CRYPTOGAMIA. ALG. Fucus. G. (1) Capillary; 
OPAKE, ! 
red tubercles, sitting on the lower part of the larger branches, 
rarely on the leaves. Mr. Woopwarp.. + 
Found by Mr. Wicc, at Cromer on the coast of Norfolk, 
also on the beach at Yarmouth, | June. 
Bi Compressed , branched : leaves oval, very entire: Hups. 
‘stem thread-shaped ; branches forked: leaves ob- 
Jong, round, on leaf-stalks. Licutr. 
_E. bot. 711—Gmel, fut. 18.4. 
Soft, but cartilaginous, pellucid, white, about 2 inches high. 
Stems numerous, full 2 inches high, cylindrical, branched on 
every side. Branches like the stems. Leaves somewhat winged, — 
. leafits alternate. Fructifcations terminating, swelling with 
seed-bearing granules. Guertin fuc. 162. Leaves oblong-egg- 
shaped, distended, not flat, . 
F, ovatus. Huds, ed. i. 468. F. vermicularis. Lightf. 958. 
Get. Sea rocks and stones near Scarborough, Yorkshire, and 
Christ Church, Hampshire. Hups. In basons of water on the 
sea-rocks on the little isles of Jura. Ligutr. A. May—Oct. 
| G. (1) Capillary, opake. 
F. Thread-shaped, compressed; very much branched ; 
_ branches set with awl-shaped, alternate, upright 
prickles. a, 
Stackh. 8-Fl. dan. 355-H, ox. xv. 9. row 1. 4—Gmel. 12. 
One to 2 feet long. Root thick, in some degree globular, 
from whence 2 or 3 principal stems proceed, which throw out 
branches on each side in an alternate series, 2 or sometimes 
more ing from the same knot or joint ; and these also are 
subdivided into long slender thread-shaped but flattened leaves, 
each of which, as well as the second branches, are armed with 
short sharp-pointed prickles. -Stems thread-shaped, Plant olive 
green. Major Vettey. Stem crooked, twisted, wiry, the size 
of a small quill, solid, shining, smooth. Branches set with soft 
— pointing upwards, Fructification in the forks of the 
ower branches, wart-like, irregular, granulated, yellowish, 
studded with brown. Sracxnouss. Nereis Britann. p. 25. We 
are indebted to this gentleman for the discovery of the fructifica~ 
tion, which he found in winter, and he suspects that many other 
species are only to be found in fruit during the winter months. 
Rocks and stones in the sea, Devonshire, Cornwall, and Nor- 
thumberland. P. May—Oct. 
Var. 2s muscoides. Huds. 590. Thread-shaped ; branches 
very numerous, diverging, zigzag. 
Rocks in the sea. Yor ek Northumberland, but not com. 
mon, _P, May—Oct. — 
lll. 
ova’lis. 
aculea’tus, 
