930 CRYPTOGAMIA ALGiE. 



tion : — The ftalk and branches are of an uni- 

 form fize, lefs than the fmalleft firing of a 

 fiddle— The whole plant is either of a purple 

 '- color, or elfe (which is more generally the 



cafe) the bafe is purple, and the extremities of 

 ' ' the color of ifinglafs — The branches are nu- 



merous, but fo entangled' with one another, 

 that their natural growth is not eafily diftin- 

 '^ guifhable — They are fometimes alternate, di- 



chotomous, and forked at the extremities -, 

 fometimes oppofite, and fimple at the ends j 

 but more often grow one above another on the 

 fame fide of the incurved ftalk. 



The fruftifications appear like little warts or 

 globules, growing without order on the fides 

 of the branches. 



The dry'd plant, which has lain for fome time on 

 the beach, is of one uniform color of ifinglafs. 



The branches are waved, curled at the extremi- 

 ties, very much entangled together, and as 

 brittle as glafs. 



fajiigiatus F.fronde filiformi dichotoma ramofifiima faftigiata 

 17- obtufa. Lin.fyft. nat. edit. 13. f. 815. n. 29. 



Sp. pi. 1631. {Mcris. hiji. Ox.feol. 15. /. 9. 

 /. 9. ordinis medii. Gmel. hift. fucor. p. 106. 

 t. 6. f. I. FniHiJicatio. Oeder. Dan. /. ^<^2' 

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