CRYPTOGAMIA ALGM. 



937 



(F. palmatus Gmel. hift. fucor. p. 202. tab. 30. 

 fed non omnia fynonyma. F. arboreus polyfchi- 

 des caule piano et tortuofo. Reaumur. a5f. 

 Gall. 1 7 1 2 . />. 21. /. I . optime. ) 



Great furbelow'd Hangers. Anglis. 



Upon the fea-fhores with the preceding, but not 

 common, as at J— Columb-kill, &c. We have 

 obferv'd the fame alfo in South Britain^ upon 

 the coaft of Cornzvall, where it grows io large 

 that a fingle fpecimen is fometimes a load for 

 a man's (houlders. 



Its general height is about a yard, often lefs, and 

 fometimes a great deal more, even three or 

 four yards7 Its fubftance and color is the 

 fame as of the laft defcribed. 



The root is an irregular bulb or tubercle, often as 

 large as a child's head, of a horny cartilaginous 

 fubftance, hollow within, and covered out- 

 wardly with fhort rudiments or ftumps of ra- 

 dicles, fo as to appear echinated. 

 The ftalk is commonly about two feet long, and 

 two inches wide, linear, plain, and riblefs ; of 

 a thicker fubftance than the leaf; twifted at 

 the bafe, and (except in its youthful ftate) ruf- 

 fled or furbelow'd on the margins, particularly 

 near the root. 

 The fummit of the ftalk expands fuddenly into a 

 large wide leaf, divided into fword-ftiaped rib- 

 lefs 



