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divided irregularly into many other lefler 

 branches near the bale. 

 In either cafe, the principal ftalk is greatly 

 branched i the branches alternate, divided and 

 fubdivided, lb as to end at lad in many fine, 

 acute, capillary fegments, all cylindrical, or To 

 very little comprefled as to be Icarcely dif- 

 cernable by the naked eye. 



*" The frudifications are implanted in the fmaller 



divifions of the branches like beads on a neck- 

 lace. They appear like little grains or tuber- 

 cles, of a round or oval figure, hardly fo big 

 as the fmalleft pin's head, placed at a little 

 diftance one above another, the uppermofi: al- 

 ways terminated vv'ith an acute fegment. Thefe 

 tubercles, when held between the eye and the 

 light, appear tranfparent, and when nearly 

 ripe, have a red fpot in their centre, which we 

 fuppofe to be a duller of minute feeds. 



^. A flight variety of the preceding fometimes oc- 

 curs, the ftalk of which is a little comprefs'd, 

 zigzag in its growth, and oftea gouty or une- 

 qual, efpecially at the angles of the branches. 

 The fummits of the ramifications are fometimes 

 furnilhed with fmall tendrils 1 and lar";e irre- 

 gular wrinkled warts grow on fideways to the 

 branches, particularly at their angles. Thefc 



warts 



