24-<> BRITISH SEA-WEEDS. [Rliodosj^ermefC . 



liab. On rocky or gravelly shores. Annual. Summer. 

 Frequent in the south of Englaiul,, and in some places in 

 Ireland. Said to be common in Scotland, but we have not 

 found it so. Some dwarf specimens of it were found by 

 ^Ir. E. M. Stark at Ballantrae, and it has been dredged off 

 Arran by IMajor Martin and D. L. 



8. Ehodymenia palmata, Grevllle. 



Hab. On rocks, and other Algje. Very common. Annual 

 or biennial. Winter and spring. 



Instead of giving any further description of this plant, 

 it is sufficient to say that it is Dulse, and every child who 

 has been brought up on the sea-shore, is able to point it 

 out to the new-fledged Algologist. There is no sea-weed 

 more generally regarded as an article of food than Dulse. 

 By the Highlanders it is called BuiUisg, which, we learn on 

 high authority, is a word compounded of two Gaelic words, 

 duille, a leaf, and uisge, ivater, i. e., the leaf of the water. 

 From tiisge'is derived the word ivhisl'^; and with the addi- 

 tion of haugh, Ufe, we have the usquehaugh of the Irish 

 [a(iua vita), the water of Ife : with how much more pro- 

 priety might it be called the water of death ! 



In some parts of Ireland the Bnlse is called dillisk, 

 which means still the leaf of the water, for esk means water : 



