933 CRYPTOGAMIA ALG^. 



lefs fegments, a foot or more in length, about 

 an inch in breadth, and from fix to thirty in 

 number. Thefe fegments are intire on the 

 edges, often bifid, and fometimes dichotomous. 



The frii(5lifications we have never obferved, but 

 fuppofe them to be like thofe of the FUCUS 

 faccharinus. 



Though this plant has a ftrong refemblance to the 

 foregoing, it evidently appears from the de- 

 fcription to be diftindt ; fo perfedlly diftinft, 

 that it is difficult to conceive how any naturalift 

 iliould confound them. 



efcukntus F. fronde fimplici indivifa cnfiformi, ftirpe tetra- 



^^' gona pinnata folium percurrente. Lin. Syfi, 



nat. edit. 13. p. 815. Mantijf. p. 135. n. 40. 



{V.Jimbriatus. Gmel. hijl.fucor p. 200. /. 29./. i. 



fed abfque pinnis ad hafin caulis. Gunner, a^, 



Nidros. 4. /. 8./. i. Oeder. Dan. t. 417. 



Eatable Fucus. Anglis, 



Badderlocks. Scotis. 



It is found both on the eaflern" and weftern coafts 

 of Scotland. It was obferved above a century 

 and half ago by Mr. Cargill, near Aberdeen t and 

 we gathered it at Ail/a Craig^ on the weftern 

 fhore, and at the ifland of Gigha. Mr. Talden 

 obferv'd it alfo in Bajfe ifland in the Forth. IX, 



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