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136 -  FUC—FUC 
No, 275.—Fucus. Sea-wrack—sea-weed. 
GENUS FUCUS.—Many species. 
Cryptogamia Class— 
Onver 1. ./ge—Sea-weeds. Approach to animal nature, 
_ by containing much nitrogen ; none of them are poisonous. 
On incineration yield kelp; the mother waters, as they are 
of kelp, contain iodine.—The following species 
of Fucus yield kelp, and consequently iodine :— 
1, Fucus Saccharinus. Sweet Fucus. Washed in warm wa- 
ter and hung up, a saccharine substance exudes from it; 
some eat it without washing. 
2. Fucus ge Sea-girdle, and hangers. Contain a nu- 
ee jelly, more or less saccharine, eaten by man and 
east. : 
3, Fucus serratus. Used with No. 4, to make the vegetable 
4£thiops of the shops, by burning to a charcoal. 
4, Fucus vesiculostis. Also called, Quercus marina, or Sea- 
_ @ak. Bladderwrack; used as No, 3. 
7. Fucus nodosus. 
8, Fucus palmatus. Dulse. Dills. Dulesh. Eaten either raw 
or boiled, or dried ; but is very tough. Much esteemed in 
Ireland, with No. 9, which is often confounded with it. 
9. Fucus edulis. ‘Red, Dulse. Eaten while raw, also after 
being pinched with hot irons, in which case it tastes like 
roasted oysters. A red-lake pigment is prepared from it. 
10. Fucus rubens. 
11. Fucus cartilagineus. 
12, Fucus membranaceus. 
13. Fucus filamentosus. 
14. Fucus esculentus 
15. Fucus teres Daberlocks ; eaten in Scotland. 
16. Fucus fimbriatus ; : 
47. Fucus pinnatifidus. Pepper-Dulse. Biting aromatic 
taste ; eaten as a salad. 
18. Fucus natans, 
19, Fucus ba ccifi tein, ¢ Gulph weed. 
Eaten raw as a sallad; also pickled as samphire; it is 
-aperient, diuretic; and antiscorbutic. 
Todine is obtained also from the kelp of the following sea 
plants of the genus Ulea, belonging also to order Ist 
Alge, viz. ez 
1. Ulea pavonie. 
