^Si CRYPTOGAMIA ALG^. 



about one- tenth of an inch wide, alternate, 

 gradually lliortened upwards, and pinnatifid, the 

 fegments confifting of obtufe callous dents. 



The plant varies extremely in the narrownefs or 

 width of the branches, even from a line to a 

 quarter of an inch ; as alfo in the diftance and 

 figure of the dents, being Ibmetimes plain and 

 thinly fet, at other times cylindrical, and 

 crowded together at the fummir into a fliort, 

 oval, digitated bunch or clufrer. It varies 

 alfo in color, being not only yellow or olive, 

 but fometimes dark red or purple. 



The frudifications are fmall red feeds, vifible by 

 a microfcope, placed in the fubftance of the 

 cylindrical dents, and in a circular form near 

 their fummits. 



This Fucus has a hot tafte in the mouth, and is 

 therefore called Pepper Dulfe by the people in 

 Scotland; who frequently eat it as a falad, in 

 the fame manner as they do the F. palmatusy 

 n. 19. 



filicinus 34. F. frondibus cartilagineis comprefiis fupra-decom- 

 pofitis pinnatis, laciniis obtulis ? Hudf. FL Angl 

 p, 473. n, 36. (FUCUS Ofmunda. Gmel. htft. 

 fucor. p. 155. /. 16. /. 2.) 

 Fern-ieav'd Fucus. Anglis, 



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