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Fig. 11. The earliest description and scientific illustration of a Hulimeda was by 

 Imperato (1599). The species is H. tuna from the Mediterranean. (From Imperato 

 (1599): photograph by the British Museum (Natural History).) 



Further details of these epithets are listed in the species description 

 for tuna hy Barton (1901). 



The first and possibly only published recipe for Halimeda as food 

 is another seventeenth-century contribution. Bauhin and Cherler ( 1 65 1 ) 

 report that it makes a good dish when treated with vinegar, salt and oil. 



The earliest non-Mediterranean collections of Halimeda came from 

 the West Indies, notably those obtained in about 1687 by the physician 

 Hans Sloane, later Sir Hans Sloane, who stopped at Jamaica in the 

 suite of the Duke of Albemarle. Sloane's visit was curtailed by the 



