CHONDRTA. 34i 



Fticus obtusus, Huds. fl. Aiisr. p. 5S6. — Linn. 

 Tr. III. p. 191. — Turner. Syn. Fuc. I. p. 43. 

 — ?Iist. t. 2[. — Vclley. mar. pl. t. 3. — Engl- 

 Bot. t. 1201. 



Fucus gclatinosus, Dcsf. fl. Atl. II. p. 427. 

 (sec. herbar.) — Delile Egypte p. i52. 



Fucus spinosus, Esp. Fuc. t. 36. male. 



Fucus luteus, Bertol. B. Ital. 2. p. 4^- 



Jjaurencia lutea, Lamour. ess. p. 433. 



Laurencia obtusa, Lam. ess. p. 4^. 



l,aurencia intricata, Lamour. ess. p. 4^? *■> 

 3. f. 8, 9. scc spccimen. 



I>aurencia geiatinosa, Lam. ess. p. 52. scc. 

 speciraen. 



In mari septentrionali ad Angliara. — In raari At- 

 lantico, ad Galiiam, Hi.spaniam. — In mari me- 

 diterran^o. — In mari nigro (secund. d'UrviIIc), 

 -.— Ad capiit bonae spei, sec. spccimina a Lalande 

 lecta.. — Ad JNovam Zeelandiara, Banks. — Ad 

 NoTam HoiJandiam, sec spccimen in Musaeo Pa- 

 risi-ensi. 



Radix sciUata, subrepens. Frondes fasciculatae, 

 palmares vel ultra, filiformes, teretes, pcnnoe pas.se- 

 rinae crassitie, ramosissimae, ramis patulis, saepius di- 

 stichis, ramuiis plerumque oppositis vel ternis, rarius 

 alternis, 1-2 lineas longis, approximatis subincrassa- 

 tis, truncato-obtusis. Fructus duplex, prope extrcmi- 

 tates ramorum situs : capsiilce ovatae, sessiles, papa- 

 veris seminuiia magnitudine, scminibus pyriformibus, 

 l)asi caudatis, limbo pellucido cinclis, in fundo capsu- 

 lae affixis, & 2. globuli seminum ternorum, angu- 

 latorura, medio ramulornm laxe immersi. Color c 

 carneo flavescens, fugacissimus, marcescentis albesccns, 

 iutescens vel roseus. Substantict cartiiaginea, lenta^ 

 sxskcata li^idiuscula. 



