346 HISTORY OF BRITISH ZOOPHYTES. 



■^ Foliaceous, with cells on hoth sides. 



1. Flustra foliacea, Broad-leaved Horn- wrack. (Plate 

 XYII. fig. 63.) 



Hab. On hard ground, in a few fathoms water. 



It is several inches in height and breadth. We have 

 never found it on the Ayrshire coast except in fragments 

 evidently drifted. I have got it in great abundance betwixt 

 Leith and Portobello ; I have it from Mr. A. Tudor, Bootle ; 

 from ]\Iiss IM'Leish and Misses Steel in abundance from the 

 Dee below Cliester; from Eev. Mr. Urquhart, Lochryan. 

 I have dredged it sparingly and small in Lamlash Bay, 

 Arran. "What I got there, as well as what I got in the 

 Firth of Forth, had, when fresh, a very agreeable flavour, 

 like bergamot, or rather like Verbena trijphjlla. This plea- 

 sant flavour is mentioned by several ; compared by one to 

 that of the orange, by another to that of violets, by a third 

 to the mixed odour of roses and geraniums; so that it is 

 probable that it differs in different places, for ElHs ascribes 

 to it an unpleasant fishy smell. It spreads out in a pal- 

 mated fan-like form. The segments of the frond differ 

 much in size in different specimens, some being narrow, and 

 others more than an inch in breadth, though tliis is rare. 

 By some it is greatly admired. Hooker says, " For curiosity 



