346 HISTORY OF BRITISH ZOOPHYTES. 
* Foliaceous, with cells on both sides. 
1. Frusrra rotiacna, Broad-leaved Horn-wrack. (Plate 
XVII. 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. Ihave got it in great abundance betwixt 
Leith and Portobello; I have it from Mr. A. Tudor, Bootle ; 
from Miss M‘Leish and Misses Steel in abundance from the 
Dee below Chester; from Rev. 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 triphylla. 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 Ells ascribes 
to it an unpleasant fishy smell. It spreads out im 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 this is rare. 
By some it is greatly admired. Hooker says, “ For curiosity 
