riz 
* vided. Licurroot 926. - 
plica’tus. 
CRYPTOGAMIA. ALGAE. Fucus. G. (1) Capillary, 
OPAKE. 
Var. 9. caudatus, Stalks cylindrical, branches more subdi- 
This has been well compared by Gmelin to the tail of a sor- 
rel horse, which in its recent state it much resembles, the green 
hue arising from its decay. It is much more glutinous than F, 
aculeatus, tiers 
Rocks off the Bill of Portland. Mr. STACKHOUSE. 
F, Thread-shaped, much branched: branches alternate ; 
_. little branches crowded, hair-like ; ‘tubercles. egg- 
¢ shaped, distant, within the substance of the branches. ' 
Velley pl. 2; (but less branched and the ultimate branches 
less hair-like than in my specimens. The figure seems 
. to have been drawn from a young plant.) 
The tubercles, (which are yellow and oval when ripe,) when 
held between the eye and the light, appear transparent, a 
when nearly ripe have a red spot in the centre, which we sup- 
se to be a cluster of minute seeds. Licurroor. Root fibrous. 
rom i to 12 inches high; rather gristly, but tender; green 
when young, purplish in maturity, in the former case nearly 
Opake, in the latter more transparent. F. ¢vbercu/atus. LicutF. 
- Rocks and stones in the sea; not uncommon. P, June—Oct. 
F, Gristly, semi-transparent, hair-like, branched, matted 
together. 
_ Stackh. 7-Gmel, 14. 2—Pluk. 184. 2—Fl. dan. 408. 
About 6 inches high; horny, tough, orange red, rigid and 
brittle when dry. Stems very numerous, crowded together at the 
root, cylindrical, serpentine, little branches from the sides, and 
forked at the end. Gmex. fuc. 14°. Sometimes only 3 or 4 
inches high ; fine dark pinky purple, readily bleaching to a fox 
. colour, transparent in its bleached state, scarcely so when in full 
Ends 
colour. of the branches either forked or entire. Gmelin 
calls his plant orange red, and Plukenet’s is said to be gold colour; 
ours is like isinglass in the bleached state, in which it usually 
presents itself. Fructifications small, globular, lateral, solitary, 
or in clusters, 
Rocks and stones in the sea.’ A, May—Nov. 
eonfervoides. F.. Gristly, thread-shaped, branched: Binches very long: 
fructifications lateral, globular, sitting, 
: Stackh. »—Fl. dan, 650—Gmel, 13. 
Two feet high, or more ; cartilaginous, yellowish green or 
brownish purple. Stem upright, thickness of thin packthread. 
Branches very long, ofien pointing 2 ways, often alternate, 
