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And the fame kind of rings which are men- 

 tioned to grow on the foregoing are fometimes 

 found upon this. 

 Both, when expos'd for fome time on the beach, 

 turn of a yellowifh white color. 



F. fronde palmata plana. Syjl. fiat. edit. 13. 

 p. 815. Sp. pi. 1630. n. 26. FUCUS dulcis, 

 Gmel. hiji. fucor. /). 1 89. {Moris, hiji. Ox. fe£f, 

 15. /. S.f.i. Gunner. aSf. Nidros. 4. /. 9. 

 Gmel. hiji. fucor. p. 189. /. 26.) 



Pahnated or fweet Fucus. Anglis. 



Dulfe or Dils. Scotis. 



Dulifh. Hibernis. 



Duilliofg. Gaulis, 



Upon the fea-rocks plentifully, particularly on 

 the weftern coaft, and the fhores of the Hebrides. 



Its fubftance is membranaceous, thin, and pellucid. 

 Its color red ; fometimes green with a little 

 mixture of red. Its length generally about five 

 or fix inches, but varies from three inches to a 

 foot. Its manner of growth fan-lhaped, or 



_ gradually dilated from the bafe upwards. Its 

 divifions extremely various. 



The ftalk is very fhort and cylindrical, fometimes 

 hardly any at all. 



From two to fix leaves arife generally from one 



root, fome of them frequently fimple, and 



either lanceolate or obtuiely-oval ; but more 



O o o 3 ufually 



