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126 four plants to which it is my object, in the present paper, to call the attention of the Linnaean Society, and of which two only can properly be said to be either altogether new, or even very uncommon; there being little doubt but the others will be found to be ufficiently abundant, at leat upon the eastern hore of England, where their having remained o long unnoticed has arisen only from their having been regarded as varieties of ome of their congeners, to which they are in reality very nearly allied. From thee authors I hould not now venture to openly to differ, or rather hould expres my sentiments with far greater diffidence, were not the plants which I have undertaken to decribe, and upon which I trust that future invetigators will confirm my decision, epecially natives of the Yarmouth beach; and had not my attention been particularly directed to them, from almot the earliest period that I have made the marine algæ my tudy, by my intructor and coadjutor Mr. Wigg, upon whoe knowledge of them the Society have heard too much from more able as well as more eminent botanits, to make it neceary for me in any wie to enlarge.

I had propoed to myself to extend this paper to a greater length than my contracted leiure will now admit, and, among other plants, to have included in it a figure of Fucus fruticulous of Jacquin, which, in company with Mr. Sowerby, I found not unfrequently upon the hores of the more western counties; the excellent account however of this plant, given by the Baron de Wulfen, made uch an intention useles; and I am now induced to mention the circumstance, only from a fear that my having abandoned the idea may have been the caue of leading my friend, Mr. Stackhouse, into error, as, I undertand that, in the third faciculus of his Nereis, the appearance of which may oon be expected, he has declined figuring this pecies from an idea that it would previouly be done by me.