1 98 Dr. GooDENOUGH dtid Mr. Woo D w A R d' J Obfe; -vat ions on 



are ; and perhaps that chcumftance influenced his judgment. At 

 the time in which he wrote, that appearance had greater force 

 than perhaps itdeferved. 



We have never yet fcen it in fruftification : could that be found, 

 we {hould have fure grounds for our determination. 



This is by no means an uncommon plant. It may be found on 

 moft rocky (hores. Its beautiful red colour, and its extremely dif- 

 fufe and divaricated habit, render the inveftigation of it perfedly 

 eafy. Under a glafs, and even to the naked eye fometimes, the 

 branches appear jointed with very ftiort joints. — They are always 

 iharp-pointed. In a recent ftate it is of a fine lively red : in drying, 

 it becomes quite of a dark or black red colour. 



53, FUCUS TUBERCULATUS. 



F. frondc filiformi dichotomd ; ramis ina;qualibus obtufis apicc 

 tuberculatis, angulis ramificationum obtufis. R. Syn.p. ^2>' 

 n. 13. Fl Ang. p. 588. 

 F. bifurcatus. Withering, vol. 3. p. 257. /. \'].f. I. 

 Habitat in rupibus marinis in Infula Portlandia> — Ilfracombe in 

 agro Devon. — St. Ives in agro Cornub. 



Adhaeret fortiter rupibus callo explanato — From teres filiformis, 

 craflitie pennse corvinae 2— Tiuncialis & ultra, eredla, glabra, oli- 

 vacea — cito fit dichotoma, angulis obtufis, ramis ramulifque ineequa- 

 libus — Dichotomiae variant pro magnitudine plantae 1-2-3 pluri- 

 mx—Frunificaiio, femina obtufa in apicibus ramulorum tubercu- 

 latorum inclufa. 



This fpecies is fufficiently diftini5l from all its affinities : from 

 lumbricalis,fajiig!atus and radiatus, by having its branches of unequal 



lengths, 



