'the Briti/h Fuciy "with particular Defer iptions of each Species. 1 23 



The colour of this Fticus varies — fometimes it is of a light red — 

 •fomctimcs it appears herbaceous and green— at other times it is 

 found of a parchment colour, and even white, owing to its having 

 been expofed to the fun when caft up upon the fliore. In the le- 

 cond variety the bafe of the leaves and terminal membrane keeps 

 lits colour of blood or raw fleth in all expofures. 



9. FUCUS LIGULATUS. 



K fronde plana avenia fub-triplicato-pinnata, ramis ramulifquc 

 diftichis, foliis lineari-lanceolatis fpinofo-dcntatis. Fl. Scotica, 

 p. 946.//. 29. — JVith. 3-/. 248. 

 T. herbaceus. Fl. Jnglica, p. ^^2. 



Inter rejeftamenta maris apud Weymouth, Exmouth,et inlnfula 

 $»ortlandica, necnon apud Yarmouth in Norfolcia. 



Radix — From valde ramofa, pallide virefcens, tenuis admodum 



.et pellucida, plana avenia— CW/; primarius redlus perpetuus, lati- 

 ufculus, fpinulis et ramis diftichis divaricatis— Hi rami in ramulos 

 fepe multoties dividuntur, omnes ejufdem ac primarius nature et 

 fubftantix— Tandem quafi in foliola abeunt lanceolato-linearia, 

 marginibus fpinofo-dentatis— Altitudo 1—3 pedalis et ultra— Fr«^/- 

 fcatio hodie latct. 



This plant grows ufually in very deep water, and is to be met 

 with only when the force of fome current has feparated it from its 

 native rock. We never remember to have feen an entire plant 

 with its root. The fragments which we have feen have been 

 fometimes more than a yard in length, and branching out to a con- 

 fiderable extent. Mr. Lightfoot's figure (which is of a very fmall 

 fragment) is executed with great fidelity. His defcription is very 



R 2 good, 



