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136 Mr. Turner's Defcriptmis of four new Species of Fucus. filiculis duplo vel triplb longiorcs. Subftantia e cartilaginco gelatinosa, lubricn. Color totius plantse fufco-ruber.

A fiiK'le fpccimen of this Fucus was found many years ago upon the Yarmouth beach by Mr. Wigg, to whofe merit I feel a peculiar pleafure in paying what I confider the moft public teftimony in my power, by making it known to the botanical world under his name ; and, as 1 think there cannot be the fmalleft doubt of its being totally diftlnft, not only from every Englilli, but alfo from every other Fucus hitherto known, I truft that, however uncouth the appellation I have beflowed upon it, the Linnean Society will (hare my feelings, and nevcrthelefs fufFer it under that title to defcend to poflerity. Mr. Mafon and myfelf have fince gathered it, though neither of us more than one plant, nor do I know that it was ever fcen in any other part of the kingdom. The place which naturally belongs to it in the Britifh lift is immediately between F. pedunculatus and F. afparagoides ; but, as there is no fear of its being confounded with thofe or any other fpecies, and as I have in my fpecific charafter included all the particulars refpeding it with which 1 am acquainted, I fhall add no more upon the fubjeft, except that the pods containing the feeds feem to be, as in F.fmuojus, laciniatus, and many others, merely extenfions of the frond, which, when their office is fulfilled, flart forth into new branches.

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