PELLUCID. 
CRYPTOGAMIA. ALGA. Fueus. G. (2) Capillary, 
» Mill, illustr.—Gisek. 25—G mel. fer. 17. 2, the very end is 
the ouly part which gives any tolerable idea of the rami- 
fications. ; 
Stem depressed, very much branched. Branches alternate, 
very long, alternately winged, with an odd one at the end. 
Wings cut into winged clefts ; segments thick, awl-shaped and 
fructifying at the ends. This plant is often 3 feet high, its 
substance gristly, its colours very elegant, but variable, reddish 
green, brownish red, yellowish, and all these often existing in 
the same individual plant. Gmeurn fuc. i58..__ 
_ Rocks and stones. Cornwall, Srevens iz R. Synz. 586. 
: BaF Jan.—Dec. 
F. Gristly, thread-shaped, compressed, branched, doubly obtu’sus. 
winged; segments club-shaped, with tubercles at 
the end. 
Velley pl. 3. 
From 3 to 5 inches high; the stem as thick as packthread, 
of the colour of isinglass, but the outer coat of the branches 
and their segments have a beautiful pink colour. Fructification 
consists of oblong egg-shaped grains or seeds within the sub- 
stance of the terminating tubercles. The plant has a stron 
smell of violets. It frequently grows. upon the edge of the — 
Fucus filum. .Ve.ixy’s marine plants. 
Stones and rocks in the sea, near Hastings, Sussex, and on 
the Devonshire coast. _May—Oct. 
Be . ¢ 
F. Gristly, compressed, much branched: little branchescoccin’eus. 
alternately. pointing one way :,fructifications glo- 
bular, lateral. Hups. 586. 
Stackh. ii. 13-Clus. ii. 250. 1-Ger. em. 1573, 9—Park. | 
1289. 2—Gmel. 16, 1=Pluk. 48. 2. 
Substance membranaceous, gristly, fine red, often with some 
white or yellow intermixed, very rarely green; about 4 inches 
1igh ; (sometimes much less.) Stem half a line in diameter, 
cylindrical but depressed, upright, soft, fexible, soon becoming 
flat. Branches the large ones alternate, long, exactly similar 
to the stem. Secondary branches winged. Wings 4 
of thick awl-shaped segments, somewhat crooked, from 2 to 5 
ines long. Fructifications globular, black, sitting on the sides 
of the stem or branches; now and then one appears with a 
short fruit-stalk. Gmeuin. ‘ : 
F. cartilagineus. Huds. ed. i. a 5a, F. plocamium. Gmelin 
and Lightf, Rocks and stones in the sea, very common. 
: — P. June—Oct. 
