945 CRYPTOGAMIA ALG-^'. 



The color of this is a bright red, or purple. The 

 fubftance a thin, delicate, pellucid membrane, 

 without rib or nerve -, fenfibly affected by a 

 warm hand. The height of the leaves from two 

 to live inches, their breadth, including the feg- 

 ments properly expanded, from three to feven 

 inches. 



The leaf widens fuddenly from the bafe, and 

 branches out fo as to form in the outline a large 

 fegment of a circle. The branches are pal- 

 mated, often dichotomous ; the ala of the ra- 

 mifications oval, and the extreme fegments ob- 

 tufe. 



In a ftate of frudification, the margins of the leaf 

 and branches are elegantly fringed with Ihort, 

 minute, crifped, and lacerated leaves, crowded 

 clofe together, and appearing to the naked eye 

 like fine fhorc dents. Some of thefe affume a 

 globular form, in which, with the help of the 

 microfcope, we plainly difcovered red grains or 

 feeds. 



endivU fo- F. fronde membranacea laciniata, laciniis dilatalis 



lius2^. undulatis, marginlbus crifpis tuberculato-punc- 



tatis.— iV<ji7<3 /pedes. .;; 



Endive-leav'd Fucus. Anglis. 



In the Frith of For thy and on the coaft of Jona. 



VIII. 



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