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- *' Norfolk Sound, which I may call the Bantry Bay of the 
North-West coast of America, is equally rich in beautiful 
Fuci as in rare and remarkable marine animals of every 
family ; and I doubt if a more delightful strand for sea-weeds 
is to be found. The variety of species equals the number in 
which they occur. Of the known kinds I only cite the fol- 
lowing from a momentary recollection: F. tomentosus, floc- 
cosus, Larix, herbaceus, asplenioides, costatus, punctatus, ul- 
voides, saccatus, &c. I here saw F. vesiculosus again, in the 
greatest plenty, but growing only on stones, and varying 
from the European plant, by producing no vesicles, which 
at first induced me to look upon it as a variety of F. cera- 
noides. The Kalosches eat the lower part of its stipes, both 
raw and cooked: I have tried it in the fresh state, but could 
perceive no peculiar flavour. F. esculentus and saccharinus 
are plentiful, and both of them are eaten, as is F. edulis, 
which is chiefly collected for winter store. F. costatus is 
certainly not recognisable from Turner’s figure; it is of a 
firmer substance than digitatus, attaining the length and 
breadth of saccharinus, whose various forms it commonly 
assumes. The fructification is in roundish protuberances, 
which commence in a broad lower part of the base of the 
frond, and terminate towards the middle of the same point, 
running along both sides of the ribs. "The various occupa- 
tions that filled my hands at Sitcha, would not allow of my 
paying particular attention to the unknown and perhaps 
new species which abounded here: one, however, was too 
remarkable to be passed over in silence, the more so, as it 
is quite a feature in the appearance of Norfolk Sound. A 
root, ramified in the manner of the Laminarias, produces a 
stipes, like packthread, and everywhere of uniform thick- 
ness, about 2 or 3 feet long, and suddenly swelling at the 
end into a perfectly round, large, bladder nut. 'The upper 
portion of this hemispherical body bears a tuft of geminate 
leaves, mostly rising on five peduncles: but in the division 
of these peduncles, there never exists such a symmetry as 
that the fifth is found exactly in the centre and opposite to 
the point of insertion of the stipes at the vesicle; rather, 
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