the Brhjjh Fud, wuh particular Def crip t tons of each Species. 109 



atflual frudification is noticed by Linnaeus, though he flill feems 

 to have conlidered the veficles as performing that' fun£lion. It 

 confifts of fmall, naked, paniculatcd ramuh, not more than half an 

 inch in length, fituatcd in the bofom of the leaves, and entirely- 

 covered with minute tubercles ; or thefe may probably be merely 

 congeries of tubercles alTuming that form ; as thefe paniclcd 

 branches arc never obfcrvcd, except when the plant is in fructifica- 

 tion, nor otherwife than covered with tubercles. The veficles are 

 often naked ; but fometimes they are terminated by a fetaceous or 

 fubulate procefs refembling a ftyle, which is nothing more than 

 the footftalk continued beyond the veficle. Many interefting par- 

 ticulars relating to this extraordinary plant, coUefled from various 

 authors, are mentioned by Gmelin; for which we refer the curious 

 reader to that work, as it would occupy too much room, and be fo- 

 reign to our dcfign to record them here. 



Lourreir in his Fl. Cochincioinmjis fpeaks of this plant. He advances 

 nothing new upon the fubjedl. Indeed he feems to know but little 

 of this genus, having noticed only feven fpecies. 



2. FUCUS SANGUINEUS. 



F. caule tereti ramofo, foliis fimplicibus ovato-oblongis obtufis 

 undulatis integerrimis. Herb. Linn. 

 Mor. Hljl. Oxon. 3. /. 645. / 15. t. 8. / 6. R. Syn. p. 47, 

 n. ^^. Fl. Dan. 349. Gmelin, p. 185. t. 24. / 2. Linn. 

 Syjl. Fl. jing. p. 573. Fl. Scot. p. 942. Withering, vol. 3. 

 A 235. 

 Habitat in rupibus et faxis marinis. 



Adhaeret rupibus callo folido difFormi— Fro«j femipedalis, etiam 

 pedalis, purpurea, diaphana— Crt«//.f brevis, teres, pro magnitudine 



plantar 



