CRYPTOGAMTA ALG7E. 975 



rally in fpots or ftreaks upon the dlfc of the 

 leaf. 

 This plant greatly refembles the FUCUS lacinia- 

 tuSy ». 28. above dcfcribed i but the frudifica- 

 tions are different. 



ULVA fronde plana dichotoma reticulata viridis. 

 — ULVA dichotoma? Hudf. Ang.p. 476. 



Green dichotomous Laver. Anglis. 



In bafons of water amongft the fea-rocks, about 

 Letth and New-Hu'ven^ Sec. VIII. 



The leaf is flat, about three inches long, fimple 

 at the bafe, but greatly dilated upwards, and 

 dichotomoufly branch'd ; the branches about 

 one-eighth or one-tenth of an inch wide, and 

 bifid at the extremities. 



The color is a pale green ; the fubftance membra- 

 naceous, very thin and pellucid, and when exa- 

 min'd with a microfcope appears to be finely 

 reticulated ; the meflies nearly fquare, and run- 

 ning in longitudinal lines contiguous to each 

 other. 



The feeds are fmall and brown, and fcattered 

 throughout the whole fubftance of the leaf. 



From the reticulated texture of the membrane, 

 we at firft imagin'd it might belong to the clafs 

 of Zoophytes, and be rank'd in the genus of 

 Flujira, Lin. but upon a more attentive exa- 

 mination 



