IQO Dr. GooDENouGii and Mr. Woodward'j Obfcivat'wm on 



A confiderable variation of appearance is obfervablc in the ex- 

 treme ramifications, which are oppofite, ufually naked at the bafe, 

 and pinnated at the fummit ; but are fometimes aUernately fhort 

 and long, the (horter being fubulate, and either entire or finely- 

 toothed, and the oppofite one pinnated, with fubulate procefles. 



The figure in Fl. Dan. reprefents the larger fpecimens of this 

 plant, but without the delicacy obfcrvable in the original. F. plu- 

 jmfus oi Gm&Xm is mod probably our plant; but fome little doubt 

 cannot but arife from the ramuli being defcribed as fub-articulate ; 

 which feems rather to point it out to be Conferva plumofa^ as we 

 have never obferved the fmalleft appearance of articulations in the 

 plant now defcribed, 



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FUCUS NODOSUS. 



F. fronde fubdichotoma, foliis diftichis obovatis, integci- 



rimis ; veficulis inuatis folitariis fronde latioribus. Herb. 



Linn. Buddie, p. 13. opt. Peiiver, p. 35. Uvedale, p. 3*. 



Gtnel'm, t. i.B.f. 1. Fl. Dan. 146. Hiji. Ox. / 15. /. 8. 



f. 2. Reaumur J Jcl. Gall. 171 2,/. 26. /. 2./ 3. Linn. Sp. 



PL 1628. Fl. Angl. 584. Fl. Scot. 918. IVithering^ v. 3. 



/, 251. Ray. Syn. p. 48. n. 41. 



Habitat in littoribus Britannicis ubique. 



Radix callus expanfus craffiffimus, Frondes plurimje e radice ori- 

 untur, lineares comprefiae crafise. Divifura ramorum varia, plerum- 

 que autem dichotoma. Folia difticha, gemina vel plura obovata 

 integerrima, in petiolum attenuata, unde ahquantulum fpatulata, 

 tandem mucofa intumefcunt & tuberculis numerofis repleta funt. 

 Veficulae elliptlcae, ovatae, folitariae, diftantes, caule ramifque innat-x, 

 & his bis tcrve latiores. Color recentis plantae olivaceus, ficcatasni- 



ger. 



