CRYPTOGAMIA ALG^. g^s 



On the fea fhores frequent, often adhering to 

 Fiicufes. 

 ,'-V'V; ,,'■,. "Its ufual length is about four or five inches ; its 

 color red, fometimes tawny or Tandy. 

 The threads are about the fize of fewing fiik, 

 ;;■;..•'■.' clofely jointed, and much branched; the 

 .. . .; .vj: branches divided and lubdivided without order. 

 c. ;■ ." :■.._ The joints are a little knotted or flightly pro- 

 tuberant, fhort and numerous i the fept a con- 

 \i-j ' ,( traded, and of a deeper red, 



.y- i', The fructifications are very minute red tubercles, 



;, - growing fingle on the fides of the branches ; 



?•:. . ; , thofe near the fummits feflile, the inferior ones 



•' * ' often pedunculated, and all generally fubtended 



--_ ,-: by a lateral fpinule. 



Thefe tubercles are probably male-fruflifications; 



J. ;c '.;.: . for in fome fpecimens, with the aid of a micro- 



fcope, we difcovered, befides thefe tubercles, 



many fmall red feeds imbedded in the fubftance 



L :-.,.■ of the threads, particularly in the very joints or 



.. .' :,.. fepta; fo that this plant may be confidered as 



monoecious. 



amana (3. There is a variety of this with finer threads ; the 

 joints hardly protuberant or fcarcely knotted. 

 Some confider this as a diftinfl fpecies, but the 

 fruflifications are fimilar to thofe of the fore- 

 going. 



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