126 Mr. Turner's Defcriptlons of 



four plants to which it is my obje6l, in the prefent paper, to call the 

 attention of the Linnaean Society, and of which two only can pro- 

 perly be faid to be either altogether new, or even very uncommon ; 

 there being little doubt but the others will be found to be fufficiently 

 abundant, at lead upon the eaftern fhore of England, where their 

 having remained fo long unnoticed has arifen only from their 

 having been regarded as varieties of fome of their congeners, to 

 which they are in reahty very nearly allied. From thefe authors I 

 fhould not- now venture fo openly to differ, or rather (hould exprcfs 

 my fentiments with far greater diffidence, were not the plants which 

 I have undertaken to defcribe, and upon which I truft that future 

 inveftigators will confirm my decifion, efpecially natives of the Yar- 

 mouth beach; and had not my attention been particularly dircded 

 to them, from almofl: the earlieft period that I have made the marine 

 algae my ftudy, by my inftruftor and coadjutor Mr. Wigg, upon 

 whofe knowledge of them the Society have heard too much from 

 more able as well as more eminent botanifts, to make it neceflary 

 for me in any wife to enlarge. 



I had propofed to myfelf to extend this paper to a greater length 

 than my contra6led leifure will now admit, and, among other 

 plants, to have included in it a figure of Fucus fruiiculofus of 

 Jacquin, which, in company with Mr. Sowerby, I found not unfre- 

 <iuently upon the fhores of the more weftcrn counties; the excel-. 

 lent account however of this plant, given by the Baron de Wulfen, 

 made fuch an intention ufelefs; and I am now induced to mention 

 the circumftance, only from a fear that my having abandoned the 

 idea may have been the caufe of leading my friend, Mr. Stackhoufe, 

 into error, as, I underftand that, in the third fafciculus of his Ner«is, 

 the appearance of which may foon be expefted, he has declined fi- 

 guring this fpecies from an idea that it would previoufly be done 

 by me. 



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