sionally brought to our shores by the great north-eastern current 

 of the Atlantic, and which have no proper claim to admission 

 into our Flora. Though the present species has had a place in 

 British works for nearly a century, I have never seen a (so 

 called) British specimen, and have made my figure from an 

 American example. 



Fig. 1. Branch of Sargassum vulgare : — the natural size. 2. A leaf, with 

 vesicl and receptacles. 3. A broader leaf: — the two last somewhat mag- 

 nified. 



