THP^ PHYTOLOGIST. 



No. XXI. 



FEBRUARY, MDCCCXLIII. 



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Akt. CXIV. — Note on Fucus Mackaii of Turner 

 By Robert Kaye Greville, Esq., LL.D. 



Fucus Mackaii, Turner. 



Fucus Mackaii, a species established in the absence of fructifica- 

 tion by the acute Turner, is reduced by Agardh to a mere variety of 

 F. nodosus ; and, it must be confessed, not without apparently good 

 reason. The plant occurs in its different localities in extraordinary 

 profusion, and strongly resembles .some states of F. nodosus, so closely 



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