I20 Dr. GooDENouGH and Mr. Woodward'j Obfervations on 



fhape of the leaves, and by the fru6lification, which in the two 

 latter is ufually on the leaves, but in this is very rarely found in 

 that fituation, but is fcattered on the lower branches where they 

 are deftitute of leaves. 



In a defcription given of this plant in a former volume of the 

 Linnasan Tranfadions, it is hinted that probably this fpecies and 

 ovalis ought rather to be placed in the divifion fronde tereti; and 

 moft certainly this in particular has great affinity with fome of the 

 plants in that divifion, the leaves being nearly of the fame fub- 

 flance as the reft of the frond, and the tubercles being principally 

 fituated on the naked branches. But on more mature confide- 

 ration, we are convinced that ovalis cannot properly be ar- 

 ranged in any other divifion than the prefent, the fhape of the 

 leaves, and their fomewhat comprefled furface, abfolutely forbid- 

 ding it ; and the very great affinity which fubfifts between dajy- 

 fhyUus^ ovalis, and fedoides, requires that they fhould be placed to- 

 gether. This muft therefore be confidered as adding one more to 

 the numerous proofs of the irapoffibility of confining the endlefs 

 variety of nature within the bounds of any artificial fyftem. 



It grows, but not very abundantly, on the rocks and Hones at 

 Cromer on the coaft of Norfolk, and has been found on various 

 other parts of the Britifh coaft. 



8. FUCUS MEMBRANIFOLIUS. TaB. i6. Fig. Ij 2. 



F. caule tereti ramofo apice membranaceo dilatato dichotomo, 

 foliis enerviis fub-bilobis, tuberculis pedunculatis. 

 Var. /3 radicans — foliis bafi incraftatis fanguineis. Buddie, p. 27, 



«. 6. 

 Var. y lacer — foliis aequalibus fub-linearibus. Buddie., p, 27, «. 1.4, 



Mor. 



