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are covered with fubulate ramuli ; and though they Turround every 

 part, yet, as they all turn upwards, they have the appearance of 

 growing from one fide only. — Thefe arc of various lengths, from 

 one line to half an inch, and have frequently, when examined by a. 

 ftrong light, efpecially before they have been long expofed t© the 

 air, and are become fhrivelled, the appearance of joints or me- 

 dullary y?//^, proving this plant to be nearly allied to the Conferva'. 

 The fruflification is notwithflanding certainly that ofaFucus. — It is 

 found only amongft the extreme branches, and confifts of globular 

 tubercles, about the fize of turnip-feed, moftly axillary, and fup- 

 ported on peduncles about half a line in length, butfometimes la- 

 teral ; and, in this fituation, both feffile and pedunculated. The 

 colour of the recent plant is dark red, but, when dry, it is entirely- 

 black. 



It adheres by its fibrous bafe to the rocks, and is found upors 

 almoft every fhore. 



68, FUCUS LYCOPODIOlDESr 



F. fronde filiform! fub-fimplici, ramis fubulatis fub-ramofis 



undique imbricatis fquarrofis. 

 Li/m. Syji. Nat. 717. Retz. Fl. Scand. Prod. ed. 2. n. 1696. 

 Confeiva fquarrofa. Fl. Dan. t, 357. 

 Inter reje£lamenta maris apud Yarmouth in Norf. invenimus. 

 Radix callus minutus vix expanfus— Frowj 6-uncialis et ultra, fili- 

 formis, craflitle pennas corvinae, modo fimplex, modo ramis perpaucis 

 inftru£la, radicem verfus nuda, dein ufque ad apicem ramulis brevi- 

 bus fubulatis, obtufiufculis fquarrofis fubramofis undique dense im- 



bricata. 



