93^ CRYPTOGAMIA ALGiE. 



Fingered Fucus, Sea Girdle, and Hangers. Jn- 

 glis. 



Upon the fea-fhores frequent/ 



This is commonly about a yard high, but varies 

 more or lefs. The fubftance is tough and 

 cartilaginous, the color olive. 



The root confills of thick horny fibres, adhering 

 to rocks and flones. The ftalk is cylindrical, 

 varying from two inches to two feet in length, 

 and from the fize of a goofe-quill to that of 

 a walking-ftick in thicknels. 



The fummit of the ftalk fuddenly dilates into a 

 plain broad leaf, which is often a foot wide, 

 divided almoil to the bafe into fword-fliap'd 

 riblefs fcgments, about a cubit long, and from 

 four to twelve or more in number. 

 The edges of the fegments are generally intire, 



but fometimes a little undulated. 

 The frudlifications we have never obferv'd, but 

 from analogy it is reafonable to conclude them 

 to be fimilar to thofe in the Y\JQ\JS faccharinus, 

 defcribed a little below. 

 This, and indeed almoft every fpecies of Fucus, 

 is ufed in Scotland as a manure for land. 



folyfchldes F. fronde palmata, foliolis enfiformibus, radice 

 2i« tuberofa cava, ftirpe plana marginibus plicatis. 



Species Linnao non defcripta. 



