2ZZ Dr. GoonENOUGH and Mr. WoodwardV Obfervations on ■ 



properly from appearances which are not at all warranted by the 

 examination of the young and undamaged plants, and are folely 

 owing to the approach of age and decay. The young plants are of 

 a yellowilh colour, and fomewhat tranfparent ; in age they become 

 black and opake. 



We have not met with it in a growing ftate, but have found it, 

 with all its varying appearances, amongft the rejedlamenta on the 

 ftiore at North Yarmouth. 



We have not yet had an opportunity of feeing it in fruflifica- 

 tiou. 



67. FUCUS PINASTROIDES. 



F. fronde filiformi ramofiflima, ramulis arfle imbricatis fu- 



bulatis fub-fecuhdis apice incurvatis integris. 

 Herb. BuMe, p. 18. «. 3. and /. 19. n. 4. R. Syn. p. 50. n. 46. 



Gmelin, p. 127. t- 1 1- / I- 

 F. incurvus. Fl. Ang. p. 590. IVither'wg^ vol. 3. p. 259. 

 Habitat in rupibus et faxis fub-marinis paffim. 

 Radix fibrofa — Frons filiformis, fublignofa, atro-rubefcens, do- 

 drantalis vel femipedalis, craflitie pennae coi-vinae, ramofiflima — 

 *i?^z;;i/ ramulis denfiflime imbricatis, fubulatis, rediufculis, incurvis et 

 fub-fecundis ve(\.iti—Fru&ificatw, tubercula globofa magnitudine 

 feminis rapi, in ramulorum alls et ad latera, pedunculata et feflllia. 



This fpecies, one of the lead elegant of the whole genus, is 

 eafily diftinguilTied from its affinities by its thicker and more 

 woody Hem, and its clofely imbricated branches, which, towards 

 the extremities, are thickened into a fcarcely diftinguifhable mafs. 



The whole ftem, and the larger as well as the fmaller branches, 

 I are 



