94^ CRYPTOGAMIA ALG^. 



We have never yet obferved the fruftifications ; 

 but from analogy v/e conclude them to be 

 placed in thecili a, on the edges of the leaf and 

 ligasTjents. 

 P* A variety of this fometimes occurs with a branched 

 ftalk, and linear lanceolate leaves, two or three 

 inches long, and not more than about one- 

 tenth of an inch wide, pinnated with lanceolate 

 ligaments like the preceding, but lefs ciliated, 

 or with fewer dents. The principal difference 

 therefore confifts in the narrownefs of the 

 leaves. 



This Fucus is eaten by the Scotch and Irijh, 

 promifcuoufly with the F. palmatus or 

 Dulfe. 



"^ ligulatus. F. fronde membranacea lineari bipinnato-ligulata, 

 27. ligulis enfiformibus ciliatis. Nova fpecies. 



Ligulated Fucus, Anglis. 

 In the Frith of Forth, about New-Haven, and 



other places, but not common. 

 Tiie color of this is a dull green ; the fubflance 

 membranaceous and pellucid, without rib or 

 nerve, but the central ftalk (lightly cartilagi- 

 nous ; the height of the whole plant two or 

 three feet; its width, including the branches 

 fairly expanded, fix or eight inches. 

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