CRYPTOGAMIA ALGJE. ^53 



doubly pinnatifid, and alternate. The angles 

 of the fegments are obtufe, and their fummits 

 truncated and acutely dented. 

 -^,^ ,: Jt varies fometimes, with branches or fegments 



..,. twice the width of the foregoing. 



We have never feen the frudifications ; but if 



r, Gmelin's figure (tab. 9. above cited) refers to 



this plant, (and we believe it does) then the 



fru<5lincations appear upon the fummits of the 



dents of the ultimate fegments, in the form of 



._, , fmall, black, deciduous globules. 



pinnatifidus F. frondibus cartilagineis planis ramofis, ramis 



33' dentato-pinnatifidis, dentibus obtufis callofis. 



,;,,;- ■;. , ¥\}C\JS pimatifidus. Hudf. Fl. Angl p. 473. ». 

 32. (Gmel. hijl. fucor. p. 156, t. 16. f. 3. bona.) 

 : '. Jagged Fucus. Anglis. 



Pepper Dulfe. Scotis. 

 .[■ Upon the fea rocks which are covered by the 



,',. tides frequent, both on the eaftern and weftern 



coafts, as about Aberdeen^ and on the Ihores of 

 Bute plentifully, &c. VIII. 

 .;;: It is of a yellow olive color, often tinged with 



red. The fubftance is cartilaginous, but yet 

 tender and tranfparent. The height about 

 two or three inches. 

 The ftalk is flat, without rib or nerve, branched 

 almoft from the bafe, The branches plain, 



about 



