CRYPTOGAMIA ALG^. 



911 



The veficles which contain the fr unifications 

 are large, obtufe, and tumid, replete with 

 mucus, and grow either Tingle, bifid, trifid, 

 or in pairs •, their furface warty, with nume- 

 rous grains or capfules imbedded in it. Each 

 grain or capfule has a pundure in the centre, 

 and contains about twenty or thirty feeds, as 

 in all the foregoing fpecies. 

 The plant varies in length from fix inches to a 

 foot or more, and the ftalk or middle rib is 

 naked near the root. It is fometimes twiited 

 fpirally in its growth, like the following, 



F. fronde plana dichotoma integerrima pundlata, 

 inferne lineari canaliculata, fruftificationibus 

 tuberculatis geminis. Syft.nat. edit. 13. p. 812. 

 F. fronde dichotoma integra, caule folium per- 

 currente, inferne nudo, veficulis verrucofis 

 terminallbus. Sp. pi, iGji, 



[Ger.emac. p. i^^-]. fig. \. ad dextram. Moris, 

 hiji. Ox. fe£f. 1^. t. 8. /. 10. hajicr. opufc. 

 fuhfec. lib. vi. p. 120. /. ii.f. i. Oedsr. Dan. 

 t. 2 8 6. melior.) 



Twilled Fucus. Anglis. 



Upon the Ihore near Ldth and New- Haven. Mr. 

 Talden. VII. VIII. 



It has the whole habit of the F. 've/ictilofus, ex- 

 cept that, fo far as we have feen, it is deftitute 



of 



