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main branch, fometimes double or treble on a little one, and not 

 un frequently terminal. 



The frond appears fometimes to have roundifh branches, fo as 

 fcarcely to juftify our placing it in this divifion — but they are gene- 

 rally comprcflTed, the upper ones always fo in a greater or lefs de- 

 gree. 



44. FUCUS CORONOPIFOLIUS. 



F. fronde cartilaginea ramofifTmia, ramulis obtufis multifidis 

 fub-confertis ; tuberculis globofis pedunculatis, feflilibufque. 

 Herb. Buddie^ p. \l.n. i. — Petiver; p, 25. «. 3. 

 Fucus coronopi facie. R. Syrt. p. 45. «. 23. 

 Habitat in rupibus fubmarinis Dorfetiae, Devonias et Cornubisc. 

 Adhaeret rupibus callo pauUulum explanato — Frons 4 — 6 uncia- 

 lis, cartilaginea, comprefTa, fub-diaphana, ftatim in ramos pluri- 

 mos divifa — Ram fsepius alterni, nonnunquam dichotomi, apicem 

 verfus tenuiores — Ramuli numeroCiffimi, plerumque conferti, lineares 

 apicibus obtufis — anguli ramificationum totius plantas fempfer ob- 

 tufi funt — FruSiifcatio, tubercula minutiflima, modo feflilia, modo 

 pedunculata, in ramulis extremis fita, atro-purpurea — Color ex ru- 

 bro purpurafcens. 



That the plant now defcribed is the Fucus coronopi facie of R. Syn. 

 has been afcertained from the examination of Buddie's Hortus 

 Siccus, where the original fpecimen gathered by Mr. Stevens on the 

 coafl; of Cornwall is preferved. We have alfo received fpecimens 

 from the fame coaft, correfponding exatSlly with that above men- 

 tioned. 



The Fucus cartilagineus of Hudfon fhould, from his reference to 

 Ray's Sympfis, be this plant; but as his fpecific chara6ler is taken 



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