CRYPTOGAMIA ALGiE. 923 



altered by growing turgid with mucus and 

 feminal veficles. 



concatena- F. fronde filiformi ramofifilma, ramulis dicho- 

 tusf 12. tomis, veficulis moniliformibus diltantibus in- 



natis foliis fubulatis. Syft. nat. edit, i^.p 814. 



Sp.pl 1628. (fig. non invenio, nifi eafit Oeder. 



Dan. t. 591. qua fimilis, fed ibi vacatur F. gra- 

 ;' nulatus.) 



Neciclace Fucus. Anglis. 



Upon the coaft about Leith and Nezv-Haven ; a 

 fragment of it was communicated by Mr. Tal- 

 • den. VIII. ' 



This is generally about fix or eight inches long, 

 of a tawny olive color, and cartilaginous fub- 

 ftance. 



The bafe of the flalk is thick, hard, and tough, 

 knobbed or unequal on the lurface with the 

 relicks of old branches. At the diltance of an 

 inch or two from the root, it throws out about 

 half a dozen narrow filiform branches, which 

 again Ihoot out many lefi'er fecondary ones, 

 (the lowermofi: always longeft) growing fome- 

 times oppofite, but generally alternate -, and 

 thefe fecondary ones are in the fame manner 

 ■• branched a third time; when thefe laft ramin- 



-■■ cations become a little comprefled and lanceo- 



jate, their edges furniflied with frnall, alternate, 



' fubulate 







