942 CRYPTOGAMIA ALG7E. 



plant jufl: defcribed be the ULVA latijjimat 

 Lin. 



The inhabitants of Iceland make a kind of pot- 

 tage with this FucLis, boiling it in milk, and 

 eating it with a fpoon. 



They alfo foak it in fre(h water, dry it in the fun, 

 and then lay it up in wooden veffels, where in 

 a fbort time it is covered with a white effloref- 

 ccnce of fea-falt, which has a fweet tafte like 

 fugar. This they "eat with butter ; but if taken 

 in too great a quantity, the fait is apt to irri- 

 tate the bowels, and bring on a purging. 



Their cattle feed and get fat upon this plant, 

 both in its recent and dry flate, but their flelh 

 acquires a bad flavor. 



It is fometimes eaten by the common people on 

 the coafl of England, being boil'd as a pot- 

 herb. 



fanguineus F. frondibus membranaceis ovato-oblongis inte- 

 24. gerrimis petiolatis, caule tereti ramofo. Syji. nat. 



edit, 13./). 815. Mantijf. 136. ( Moris, hifi. Ox. 

 p. 64.5- f^^' 15- i' ^« /• ^' Gmel. hifi. fucor. 

 p. 185. /. 24. /. 2. opt. Ocder. Ban. t. 349; 

 bona.) 

 Dock-leav'd Fucus. Anglis. 

 Upon the fea-fhores not unfrequent. 



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