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79. Srii.?:Rococcus pedicellatus, fronde fili- 

 forrai dichoioma cequali, capsulis elli- 

 pticis mucronatis lateralibus pedicella- 



lis. 



Ad litiis Noveboracense Americae Borealis. 



Specimina mi.sit Torrey. 



Frons filiformis, teres, spithamaca \el pedalis, 

 crassitie S pli x- ro co cci p u r p ur as ce n t is , Jaxe 

 dichotoma, segmcntis xqualeni fcrc crassitiem tenenti- 

 bus. Capsula ellipticae, sinapis seminum magnitudine, 

 per totam Jongitudinem frondis sparsae, pedicellis la- 

 tcralibus vix semilincam longis aflixae, brevissimo acu- 

 miwe mucronatie, glomerulum seniinum fabricae fibro- 

 cae concentrice affixorum, oblongorum, continentes. Cb- 

 lor amoene roseus. Substantia tenuis. 



Species elegans, Sphasrococco purpura- 

 sccnti proxima, ramificatione laxe dichotoma , & 

 capsulis lateralibus pcdicellatis distincta. 



80. Sph.^erococcus congestus, frOnde gelati- 

 noso-cartilaginea filiformi ramosissima, 

 ramis confertis, ramulis horisontalibus 

 setaceis leviter incurvis secundis, 



Fucus congestus, Brown mst. — Turn. Hist. 

 t. 179. 



Ad insulas Kent, prope Novam Hollandiam, detexit 

 Brown. 



Caulis 3-4- uncialis & ultra, teres, inferne 

 pennae Merulinae crassitie, sensim attenuatus, ramis 

 undique obsitus sparsis, eauli homogeneis sed tenui- 

 oribus, cvebris, patulis 2-3-unciaiibus, simili ratione 

 compositis. Ramuli setacei, remotiusculi, patentes, le- 

 viter incurvi, sccundi, subulati, vix lineam longi. FrU" 

 ctus ignotus. Color fusco-laterititis; exsiccatos atro- 



pur- 



