the Briti/Ij Fuel, •with particular Defcriptiom of each species. 20 •{ 



fiunt planter — Frons teres, filiformis, fub-diaphana purpurea, 4 — f> 

 uncialis, craflitlefiliemporetici minoris, dichotoma, ramofa, angulis 

 ramificationum obtufioribus — Ramorum fummitates attenuatar, 

 acutiflTimae — FruUlifcatio, tubercula hemifphaErica verrucofa, magni- 

 tudine feminis rapi, diftantia, ad latcia ramorum. 



This fpecies is unnoticed in the Flora Atigltca^ but is certainly 

 mentioned by Ray as a variety of lumbricalis, Syti. p. 45. «. 24 ad 

 finem — ' banc fpeciem cum nodulis folidis per intervalla imdiis cauliculis 

 * et ramulis innafccntibus obfervavit rever. vir D. Manningham.' — This 

 defcription clearly points out the prefent plant. From Gmelin's 

 defcription of his F. rolundus we have no doubt of this being his 

 plant ; but the figure is bad, reprefenting the fummits very ftiort 

 and very obtufe, which in the growing plant are extremely acute. 

 The tubercles arc well reprefented as they appear in the dry, not in 

 the recent plant — but we have never obferved them fo near the 

 fummits of the branches; from which, and from the fhort blunt 

 terminations, it is probable the figure was taken from a fpecimen 

 in which the extremities were broken off by the waves. 



The plant, when growing, expands in a radiated or umbellated 

 form, and has blunt angles ; whence the rounded appearance of 

 thofe angles when dry. The dichotomy is more exadl in this fpe- 

 cies than in any of its affinities, the correfponding branches gene- 

 rally dividing very regularly at the fame height. The perfe£l tu- 

 bercles when recent, are of a pale pink or flefh colour, rough on the 

 furface, and are extremely refembling to the head of the Spharia 

 entomorrhiza as reprefented in Dickfon's plate Crypt, fafc. i. /. ^.f. 4. 

 — In this ftate the feeds, which are of a full bright red colour, may 

 be difcerned with a good common eye-glafs. When the plant is 

 dry, the tubercles acquire the fame colour as the reft of . the plant. 



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