94S CRYPTOGAMIA ALG^E. 



The color of this is a bright red, or purple. The 

 fubftance a thin, delicate, pellucid membrane, 

 without rib or nerve j fenfibly affeifted by a 

 warm hand. The height of the leaves from two 

 to five inches, their breadth, including the feg- 

 ments properly expanded, from three to feven 

 inches. 



The leaf widens fuddenly from the bafe, and 

 branches out fo as to form in the outline a large 

 fegment of a circle. The branches are pal- 

 mated, often dichotomous •, the da of the ra- 

 mifications oval, and the extreme fegments ob- 

 tufe. 



In a ftate of frudtificatlon, the margins of the leaf 

 and branches are elegantly fringed with Ihort, 

 minute, crifped, and lacerated leaves, crowded 

 clofe together, and appearing to ^he naked eye 

 like fine (hort dents. Some of thefe alTume a 

 globular form, in v/hich, with the help of the 

 microfcope, we plainly difcovered red grains or 

 feeds. 



cndivi^ fo- F. fronde membranacea laciniata, laciniis dilatatis 

 liusi^-. undulatis, marginibus crifpis tuberculato-punc- 

 t^iiii.—Nova fpecies, 

 Endive-leav'd Fucus. Anglis. 

 \x\ the Frith of Forth^ and on the coaft oi Jona. 

 VIII. 



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