9^6 CRYPTOGAMIA AhGJE. 



quently find, upon the coaft of the Hehrides^ 

 and other fhores, feveral marine fubftances 

 which bear a very great external refemblance 

 to fome of the plants we have been dcfcribing •, 

 fuch as many fpecies of branched fponges, par- 

 ♦ ticularly the SPONGIA dichotoma, Lin. and 



others not defcrib'd ; fome of the ALCYO- 

 NIA, FLUSTR^, &c. which, being gene- 

 rally received into the clafs of Zoophytej_^ did 

 not properly belong to our fubjedl. We have 

 therefore purpofeJy omitted them ; and muft 

 refer thofe curious perfons, who would wifh to 

 inveftigate them, to their proper place in the 

 Syjlema natur/e Lin. giving them only this 

 ihort direction, that fuch fubftances may in 

 general be known not to belong to the vecre- 



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table kind, by their having either a d ovv^ny o r 



-iP°1pXi£?^i'^^' ^^ ^^y ^^^^"^ yielding a ftrong 

 fmell, like burnt_oy:{leriflieUs, v/hen put into 

 the fire. . 



ULVA. Gen.pl. 1206. 

 FruSiiJicationes in mem bran a diaphana. 

 favonia i. ULVA plana reniformis fclTiiis decuflatim flriata. 

 Syjl. tiat. edit. 13. p. 817. FUCUS pavonius. 

 Sp.pl p. 1630. (Moris, hift. Cx. IIL p. 645. 

 fe^. 15. i. 8./. 7. crdinis fupericris, bona. Ellis. 

 cor. p. 88. /. 33. fg. C. cpt.) 



Striated 



