lOS BRITISH SEA-WEEDS. \}Ielanos]}erme(2 , 



and the otlier a sea-weed. It is not uncommon in some 

 parts of Ireland ; it is less common in England ; and we 

 know not that it has ever been found in Scotland. As 

 I have seen it only in a dried state^ I shall not attempt 

 pai'ticularly to describe it. 



Genus Y. FUCUS, Linn. 



Generic Character. Frond plane, compressed, or cyhndrical, 

 Hnear, dichotomous, coriaceous. Air-vessels, when present, in- 

 nate in the frond, simple, large. Receptacles terminal (except 

 in Jucm nodosus), turgid, containing tubercles imbedded in 

 mucus, and discharging their seeds by conspicuous spores. — Grev. 



^ Frond flat, loith a midrib. 



i. Fucus VESicuLosus, Linn. 



Hab. Common on all the sea-shores. 



It is the Sea- ware, Bladder, Fucus, Kelp- ware, Black-Tang 

 of Scotland, and sometimes, for what reason I know not. 

 Lady-wrack. In Gothland, according to Linn?cus, it is Swine- 

 Tang, because, boiling it, and mixing it with a little coarse 

 dried flour, they give it to their hogs. In the Hebrides, 

 cheeses are dried without salt, being covered with the ashes 

 of this plant, wliich abounds in salt. In Scania it is used as 



