CRYPTOGAMIA AhGIE. 



911 



The veficlcs v/hich contain the frudifications 

 are large, obtufe, and tumid, replete with 

 . mucus, and grow either fingle, bifid, trifid, 

 or in pairs •, their furface warty, with nume- 

 rous grains or capfules imbedded in it. Each 

 grain or capfule has a pundure in the centre, 

 and contains about twenty or thirty feeds, as 

 in all the foregoing fpecies. 

 .... , The plant vanes in length from fix inches to a 

 foot or more, and the flalk or middle rib is 

 naked near the root. It is fometimes twilled 

 . fpirally in its growth, like the following. 



fpiralis 5. F. fronde plana dichotoma integerrima pundlata, 



inferne lineari canaliculata, fruftificationibus 



tuberculatis geminis. Syfl.naL edit. i^. p. S 12. 



■ i F. fronde dichotoma Integra, caule folium per- 



c' .. currente, inferne nudo, veficulis verrucofis 



:;];■.: terminahbus. Sp. pi. i6j2. 



(Ger. emac. p. i^6y. Jig. ^. ad dextram. Moris, 

 hift. Ox. fe£I. 15. t. 8. /. 10. Bafler. opufc. 

 fubfec. lib.\\. p. 120. t. 11. f. i. Oeder. Dan. 

 '. t. 286. melior. ) 



Twilled Fucus. Anglis. 

 ■ U,:on thelhore near Z-w/i? and A''£'i€'-/!/^w«. Mr. 

 Talden. VII. VIII. 

 It has the whole habit of the F. vefuulofus, ex- 

 cept that, fo far as we have feen, it is deilitute 



of 



