CRYPTOGAMIA ALGiE. 915 



the fummic ; the two lobes generally fliort and 

 obtufe, but often longer and more acute. 



The frii6lifications appear in the fummits of the 

 fegments, imbedded fingly, one for the mofl: 

 part near the apex of each lobe, refembling a 

 minute red wart or veficle> of the fize of the 

 fmalleft pin's head, and full of numerous feeds. 

 Sometimes thefe fruftifications are feen lower 

 in the fubftance of the leaf. 



Such is the defcription to which mofl of the fpe- 

 cimcns will agree. There remain, however, 

 feveral remarkable varieties which deferve to be 

 noticed, and which, if overlooked, would tend 

 not a little to confound the learner, 

 p. The firfl: is the Fucus ceranoides albidus^ ramulorum^ 

 apkihus fiellatis. Rail Synopf. p. /i^^. 7t. 18. 



Stellated or digitated Buckfhorn Fucus. Anglis, 



The uppermofl fegments in this are numerous, 

 and often crowded ; not properly dichotomous, 

 but crowino; either in a ftel^ated or digitated 

 form. This is often found upon the fhores 

 bleached by the fun and air. 

 y. The fecond is the Alga memhranacea purpurea 

 parva, fegnientis laiis mullmn laciniatis et crif- 

 patis. Rail fyn. p, 44. fub not. ad n. 16. To 

 which the Fucus five Alga memlranacea Candida 

 fegmentis plurimum laciniatis^ of Moris, hijl. Ox, 

 N n n 2 fn^. 



