CRYPTOGAMIA ALGiE. 925 



hiji.fe^. 15. t. 9. /. 4. exterior ad dextrayn 

 bona, Oeder. Dan. t, 255* Gmel. hijl. fucor. 

 •p. 130. /. 12. 



Prickly Fucus. AngUs, 



Upon the fea-fliores not unfrequent. 



This is from a foot to eighteen inches long ; its 

 fubftance thin and grafs-like, fometimes carti- 

 laginous ; its color ufually an olive green, but 

 fometimes tawny. 



The ftalk is veryfmall, thread-fhaped, comprefled, 

 and greatly branched. 



The branches are very long, narrow, linear, alter- 

 nate, and generally fubdivided once or twice 

 more into fimilar, narrow, tender, grafs-like 

 fegtnents, edged on both fides with fine, fliorr, 

 alternate, ereft, inoffcnfive prickles, or fharp 

 dents, of the fame color and fubdance as the 

 branches. 



The fruflifications, fo far as we can learn, have 

 never yet been difcovered ; but its place of 

 growth and whole habit denote it to be a 

 Fucus. 



We have fometimes feen what is fuppofed by 

 authors to be a variety of the foregoing -, but as 

 it puts on a very different face, it deferves par^ 

 ticular notice. 



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