CRYPTOGAMIA: ALG. Fucus, Ey (1) Flat, rilless 97 
OPAKE, : 
plant is taken out of the water and held by the stem, it not un- 
aptly resembles a flag-staff and flag; the latter cut horizontally 
-into strips. ; . 
Sea girdles and hangers. Stones and rocks in the sea. On 
the coasts of Cornwall, plentiful. Sracknousr, P. Jan.—Dec. 
. Boiled tender and eaten with butter, pepper, and vinegar, is 
said by Gerrard to be a good food. 
F.. Flat, spear-shaped, dotted, forked; very entire: the ceranoi’des. 
"ends cloven and tubercled. a gt oh, . 
pate Ae AY. ee. Kve 8. wow VS 1B6 * 
This is a good representation, but the leaves are too broad 
upwards and their points too sharp, Allied to the F. inflatus 
_ but narrower, more branched, and impressed with scattered dots 
on both surfaces. Linn. The figute of Morison in H. ox. xv. 
8. row 1.. 13, cited above, has its surface covered with wart-like 
excrescences, as is also the case with many plants which I have 
seen corresponding with the figure in all points, but it seems ex. 
traordinary that Linnzus should not “have noticed a circum- 
Stance so remarkable. Plant cartilaginous; stiff and horny 
when dry. ht 2 aes 
F. canaliculatus. &. Huds, 583, On rocks and stones in the 
sea. On the coast of Cornwall. oe Sept. 
F. Cartilaginous, forked, greatly widening upwards ; sur stella’tus, 
face thick set with excrescences bearing fructifica- 
tions on their extremities. 
Plant 4 inches high, beautifully hedge-hogged with excre. 
scences, sometimes on one, sometimes on both surfaces. They 
are upright, partly cylindrical, fleshy, bearing the fructifications 
imbedded in their tops. Its colour is brown, purple or bright 
- green. Mr, Sracxuouse. & : 
* Mr. Lightfoot tells us that the vir segments are nu- 
merous, often crowded, not properly forked, but growing either 
im a stellated or finger-like form. t. : 
FP. ceranoides. 2. Huds. 8 Lightf. Fucus ceranoides albidusy 
ramularum apicibus stellatis. Ray Syn. 44. 2. 1d. 
F. Flat, forked, very entire, strap-shaped, grooved : fruc-canalicula’ 
_ tifications terminating, tubercled, divided into 2 tus, 
parts, blunt. Linn. syst. nat. ed. xii. 716. syst. veg. 
ed. xiii. and xiv. ; abies 
EB. bot. 823—Gmel. 1. A. 2 and 3-Fl. dan. 214—H. ox. xv. 
_ 8, row 2.11.1 and row the last, 12-Velley pl. 15 
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