CRYPTOGAMIA ALGiE. 923 



altered by growing turgid with nmcus and 

 feminal veficles. 



toncatena- F. fronde filiformi ramofifTima, ramulis dicho- 

 tus? 12. tomis, veficulis moniliformibus diilantibus in- 

 natis foliis fubulatis. Syft. nat. edit. i^.p. 814. 

 Sp.pl. i6zS. (Jig. non invenio, nifi eafit Oeder. 

 Dan. t. 591. qiia fimilis^ fed ibi vocatur F. gra- 

 nulatus.) 



Neclilace Fucus. Anglis. 



Upon the coaft about Leith and New-Haven ; a 

 fragment of it was communicated by Mr. Tal- 

 den. VIII. 



This is generally about fix or eight inches long, 

 of a tawny olive color, and cartilaginous fub- 

 ftance. 



The bafe of the ftalk is thick, hard, and tough, 

 knobbed or unequal on the furface with the 

 relicks of old branches. At the diftance of an 

 inch or two from the root, it throws out about 

 half a dozen narrow filiform branches, which 

 again fhoot out many lefier fecondary ones, 

 (the lowermoil always longeft) growing fome- 

 times oppofite, but generally alternate ; and 

 thefe fecondary ones are in the fame manner 

 branched a third time ; when thefe lafb ramifi- 

 cations become a little comprefiTed and lanceo- 

 late, their edges furnifhed with fmall, alternate, 



fubulate 



