974 CRYPTOGAMIA ALG^. 



ceous but yet friable fubftance, and a dark or ' 



blood-red color. 

 It fmells like Dulfe (FUCUS palmatus) and bears 



fome refemblance to it, from whence it obtain'd 



its name. 

 The Highlanders wafli it, and rub it between 



their hands into fome water, fo as to make a 



thin pulpy mixture, and with this they purge 



their calves. 



laciniata ULVA frondibus planis purpureis, apice dila- 

 A0» tatis laciniatis undulatis. — Nova /pedes. (Vid, 



fig, noji.) 



Red laciniated Laver. Anglis. 

 ^ ' We gathered it upon the coafl o^Jo'na. VIII. 



Several leaves arife from the fame root, each of 

 them narrow and filiform at the bafe, but fud- 

 denly dilated from thence to the top •, deeply 

 and variouily laciniated, and waved or plaited 

 on the edges ; three or four inches long, about 

 two inches over in the wideft part ; of an ex- 

 tremely thin membranaceous fubflance, and 

 bright red or purple color. 



The feeds are vifible with the help of a micro- 

 fcopc, and are very minute and numerous. 

 They are lodged in various parts of the fub- II 

 ftance of the membrane, particularly near the 

 edges, appearing like grains of a red powder 

 fprinkled in rows near the margins, and gene- 

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