CRYPTCGAMIA ALG^. ' 959 



The lubftance is cartilaginous, but yet fo as to be 

 tender, and fomewhat gelatinous. The color is 

 a pale or vvhitifli green, the leaves being fome- 

 times (lightly tinged with red. The height two 

 or three inches. • . . ' 



The ftalk is filiform, cylindrical, and branched; 



, , , ;.. the branches alternate, and dichotomous. 



The leaves are oblong, cylindrical, fucculent, about 



■ • " ■ a line in length, and grow on fhort footftalks, 



one above another, without order, all round 



;; , the branches, but chiefly near their fummits. 



To compare fmall things with great, they bear 



- - a flrong refemblance to the leaves of the 



.- , . -., ;, -, : SEDUM album Lin. or White Stonecrop-y buc 



with this difference, that a few of the leaves 



' ^- ■■- • of the FUCUS are fometimes found bifid, 



■ : ; ; and frequently at their bale are feen fnorter and 



.'■",';. fmaller leaves, which grow in clufters, and 



' :, _ ; appear only like round grains. 



The fruftifications are minute red feeds, to be 

 - difcerned by the microfcope in the fubllance of 



. . the leaves. 



articuhttis F, fronde articulata ramofifTima, articulis ovato- 



39- cylindricis tubulofis, ramis oppofitis et verti- 



cillatis. — XilSV A articulata. Hudf.Afig. p. i\.y6. 



,-;•.; ■ . (Raii fynopf. p. 34. n. 9. fed a Linnxo nun 



. : , defcriptus videtur P (Mcris. hijl. Qx. 111. p. 646. 



fe^. 15. /. 8. /. 14. bona. 



Jointed 



