CRYPtOGAMIA ALGiE. 945 



pro hac fpecie^ qua verb fpecminihus nojlris non 

 accordat, neq^ue ea Oeder. Dan. t. ^53') 



Ciliated or ligulated Fucus. Anglis. 



On the fhores of Jona and other places, but not 

 common. VIII. 



The color of this is red, tite fubilance membra- 

 naceous and pellucid, without rib or nerve ; the 

 ordinary height of the whole plant about four 

 or five inches. 



It is variable in its appearance, according to the 

 different ftages of growth. 



The leaf when fimple is elliptic and lanceolate • 

 about two inches long, and a quarter of an 

 inch wide, finely dented or ciliated on the 

 edges. 



When further advanced, it is produced to the 

 length of four or five inches, fometimes with- 

 out any increafe in breadth, at other times near 

 an in chwide. In this ftate it becomes branched, 

 or more properly proliferous, as narrow, lan- 

 ceolate, diftichous, leaf like ligaments fhoot out 

 of the edges, in alternate or nearly pinnated 

 order, all dented on the margins, like the pri- 

 maryleaf, with numerous a//^ of very unequal 

 lengths. Sometimes alfo the very difc or fur- 

 face of the leaf is befet with fhort cilia cr little 

 innocent fpincs, which is the variety ca!' d by 

 Cmelin FUCUS holofetaceus. above cited. 



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