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the branches, distant, an awl-shaped leaf at the side of each. Linn. Six 
or eight inches long, cartilaginous, tawny olive. Bladders oblong, placed 
at a little distance, three or four one above another, each with one or two 
little thorns. When in fruit, the ends of the branches also swell, and are 
covered with numerous wart-like substances, each with a puncture in the 
centre and within full of seeds. Lightf. 9. 4. The seeds are not in the 
cavity, but seem to be placed beneath the outer coat of the branches, 
rather in an annular form. Velley. The granulations placed under the 
outer coat of the branches are dark coloured, and have a pore or hole 
opening externally. There are other protuberances in the branches, not 
dark coloured, more like blisters than granulations, and these also have 
a pore opening outwardly. 
(Beaded Fucus. E.) Sea rocks and stones, Sussex and Cornwall. Huds. 
About Leith and New Haven. Mr. Yalden. At Weymouth. 
P. June—July. 
F. kalifou'mis. (Frond sub-gelatinous, filiform, tubular, much and 
irregularly branched: branches and ramuli generally verticillate, 
contracted as if jointed: tubercles sessile, and scattered seeds on 
the ramuli. Turner. 
Turn. Hist. 29— E. Bot. 640— Lin. Tr. iii. t. 18— Lightf. 31. at p. 962. E.) 
Height from four to six inches; whirls nearly half an inch asunder, branches 
two to three inches long. ( Fructification of two sdrts: the one con¬ 
sisting of naked, roundish seeds, immersed in the substance of the frond; 
the other of sessile capsules, spherical in their younger state, but when 
full grown inversely urceolate, and open at their apices, containing a 
globule composed of seeds of a shape between oblong and pyriform. 
Colour , beautiful pink, extremely fugitive; when exposed to the sun, 
yellowish or greenish, and sometimes almost white. Substance extremely 
tender and slippery. Turn. Hist. 
(Pinky Kaljform Fucus. F. verticillatus. Lightf. With. Ed. 3 and 4. 
Chondria kaliformis < Turn. Hook. E.) Discovered by Mr. Woodward 
on the beach at Yarmouth, and by him first ascertained to be a non-de¬ 
script species. Also found by Mr. Stackhouse on the western coasts. (At 
Scarborough. Sir T. Frankland and Mr. Travis. On the rocks and isles 
of Jura. Lightf. At Brighton. Mr. Borrer. Near Dublin. Dr. Scott. E.) 
A. June—Sept. 
(F. clavellc/sus. Frond sub-gelatinous, filiform, cylindrical, tubular, 
much and irregularly branched; branches and ramuli mostly 
alternate and distichous ; tubercles sessile, and scattered seeds on 
the ramuli. Turner. 
Turn. Hist. 30— Lin. Tr. vi. t. 9-—E. Bot. 1203. 
Fructification of two kinds, both situated on the ramuli: the one composed 
of scattered, roundish, naked seeds, immersed in the very Substance of 
the frond; the other of capsules sessile on the sides, or at the axillae of 
the ramuli, at first spherical, afterwards inversely urceolate, perforated at 
their apices, containing a globular mass of roundish seeds. Colour, pale 
red, approaching to that of bricks, less fugitive than that of F. kaliformis; 
when exposed to the sun, or decaying, turning to a whitish green. Turn. 
Hist. Every observer must be aware of the great similarity between the 
characters of this species and F. Icdtifotmis. The most obvious distinc¬ 
tion seems to be that in F. clavellosus the branches and ramuli are never 
verticillate, nor are they marked with those joint-like contractions so 
apparent in the other species. 
