I'jo Dr. GoODENOUGH and Mr. Woodward'j Obfervalions on 



Far. j8 plerumqiic viret — Extremitates ramorum fubcrifpo-un- 

 ikilatae — lacinicc longiufculae et fspius acuta — Habitat paflim. 



Var. y mile in lacinias numerofiflTimas confertas dividitur — Vide- 

 tur potius natnise lufus quam qua: vel varietas dici poflit — Inter 

 paulo raiioies. 



Var.'S' ramos onines acquales fub-lineares laciniis obtufis exhibet 

 — Ano-uli dichotomiarum obtufiufculi — Color, ruber — Habitat in 

 Infula Poi tlandi'ca, fed rarius. 



Far. t baud raro ad altitudinem oclo unciarum crefcit — From 

 cartilaginea, ad bafin fepius comprefTa quam plana, fed rami omnes 

 demum plani aut faltcm planiufculi evadunt — Rami valde tenues, 

 lineares, squales, laciniis longis acutis — Fruclificatio in omnibus 

 hifce varietatibus e?Ldem—HabiM paffim. 



No plant can well be fuppofed to vary more than this. If we 

 view the extremities of its variation, the one will be found with a 

 broad dilated membranaceous frond— the other with a narrow 

 linear cartilaginous comprefled one. Neverthelefs the tranfition 

 from the one to the other is fo gradual, that it is not eafy to be 

 perceived where any difference takes place — 



Uf^ue adeo quod tangit idem ejl — 



It comes in competition with none of the Fuci which are arranged 

 in this order, except the young fpecimens of F. rubens ; but the 

 flighteft attention will diftinguifh it from this. In the firfl: place, 

 this plant is never in any degree proliferous ; and in the next, its 

 fru6lification is fmooth tubercles imbedded almoft or entirely in the 

 fubftance of the frond, not what Mr. Lightfoot calls warts, which 

 when magnified appear to be the curled rudiments of young leaves. 

 See Y.proUJer, Fl. Scot. p. 951. 



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