12 Ocean between Europe and America. 



Of fea weeds (Fucus linn.) we faw Au- 

 gufl the 16th. and 17th. a kind which had 

 a fimilarity to a bunch of onions tied toge- 

 ther, thefe bunches were of the fize of the 

 fift, and of a white colour. Near the coaft 

 of America within the American gulf, Sep- 

 tember the nth. we met likewife with fe- 

 veral fea weeds, one fpecies of which was 

 called by the failors rock-weed ; another 

 kind looked like a firing of pearls, and ano- 

 ther was white, about a foot long, narrow, 

 every where equally wide and quite ftrait. 

 From Auguft the 24th. to September the 

 11th. we faw no other weeds, but thofe 

 commonly going under the name of Gulf- 

 weed, becaufe they are fuppofed to come 

 from the gulf of Florida ; others call it 

 SargazOy and Dr. Linnceus, Fucus natans. 

 Itsjlalk is very flender, rotundato-angulated, 

 and of a dark green, it has many branches 

 and each of them has numerous leaves dif- 

 pofed in a row, they are extremely thin, 

 are ferrated, and are a line or a line and a 

 half wide, fo that they bear a great refem- 

 blance to the leaves of Iceland-mofs ; their 

 colour is a yellowifh green. Its fruit in a 

 great meafure refembles unripe juniper 

 berries, is round, greeniih yellow, almoft 

 fmooth on the outfide, and grows under the 

 leaves on fhort footftalks, of two or three 



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