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Title: Flora scotica: or, A systematic arrangement, in the Linnæan method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides
Year: 1777 (1770s)
Authors: Lightfoot, John, 1735-1788
Subjects: Botany Botany
Publisher: London, Printed for B. White
Contributing Library: California Academy of Sciences Library
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of the branches. The feeds may be difcovered, by the help of a microfcope, to be lodged in great numbers in yfAX: I. the fubllance of fome of the extreme joints, appearing like grains of a fine purple powder. This fpecies is nearly related to the preceding, but quite diftindt. It feems alfo to be the link which unites together the three Genera of FUCUS, ULVA, and CONFERVA. veriicilk F. frondibus tubulofis fubarticulatis ramofis, ra-Sus 41. mis verticillatis fubulatis fetaceo-ligulatis.—Nova /pedes. (Vid.fig. nojl.)Verticillate Fucus. Anglis.We found it fparingly upon the rocks of theLittle IJles of Jura. VI1.•*, This is nearly allied to the 39th, but is certainly a diftindl fpecies.The color of it is a pale or whitifli green. Thefubftance membranaceous. The height aboutfive inches.Several (lalks arife from one root, each of whichis about the fizeof a fmall goofe-quill, tubular,nearly equal, or fo obfcurely jointed as to be almoft xxxc iU^ ,yi/r/M -/^^■/■/»y/////^.y. I. OffJ.
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_^^-//^^-^.^. CRYPTOGAMIA ALGM. gS^ almofl: cylindrical. About thefe ftalks, at in-tervals of one quarter of an inch, grow in- , .. whirls three, four, or five fubulate branches, an inch or more long, but gradually fliortened. in each whirl towards the fummit of the ftalk. Thefe branches are befet with fetaceous lig-a-■ . ; v riients, growing alternate, or without order. The frudifications are fmall red feeds, vifible with • -^ a microfcope in the ligaments and fummits of :-■ : , the branches. j^lum 42. F. fronde filiform! fimplici fubfragili opaca. Ltn.Syji. nat. edit. 13. />. 815. Sp.pl. 1631. (Boccon.muf. I. p. i-)i. /. 7. /. 9. Petiver. Gaz. t. 91,:: /. 5. opt.) Thread Fucus, or Sea Laces. Anglis,Upon the fea rocks, and waving under the water.. .• like long ftrings, frequent on many parts of the coaft.The fubllance of this is opaque and cartilaginous,but not difiicuk to be broken. The color whenrecent a dull olive-green, when dry, fufcous,or nearly black ; and, when exp

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