CRYPTOGAMIA AhGJ£. 



959 



The fubftance is cartilaginous, but yet fo as to be 

 tender, and fomewhat gelatinous. The color is 

 a pale or whitifli green, he leaves being fome- 

 times (lightly tinged with red. The height two 

 or three inches. 



The Italk is filiform, cylindrical, and branched; 

 the branches alternate, and dichotomous. 



The leaves are oblong, cylindrical, iucculent, about 

 a line in length, and ^row on fhort footftalks, 

 one above another, without order, all round 

 the branches, but chiefly near their fummits. 

 To compare fmall things with great, they bear 

 a ftrong relemblance to the leaves of the 

 SEDUM allium Lin. or White Stonecrop •, but 

 with this difference, that a few of the leaves 

 of the FUCUS are fometimes found bifid, 

 and frequently at their bafe are feen fhorter and 

 fmaller leaves, which grow in clufters, and 

 appear only like round grains. 



The fruftifications are minute red feeds, to be 

 difcerned by the microfcope in the fubftance of 

 the leaves. 



firticulatus F. fronde articulata ramofifliraa, articulis ovato- 



39' cylindricis tubulofis, ramis oppofitis et verti- 



cillatis. — ULVA articulata, Hudf.'Ang. p.^'jG. 



(Raii fynopf. p. 34. n. 9. fed a LinnjEO non 



defer iptus videtur ? (Moris, hijl. Ox. \l\. p. 6^6, 



feff, 15. /, 8. /. 14. hna. 



Jointed 



