KELP. 



Bladdery Fucus Fucus vcsiculosus. 



This plant is useful for other purposes as well as 

 for its alkaline properties. It is considered an ex- 

 cellent manure for lands, and in the islands of Jura 

 and Skye it is a resource in winter as food for cattle. 

 We are told that the poor cows regularly wander 

 to the shores in that season, at the recess of the 

 tide, to seek for that pasture which the fields deny 

 them. Linnaeus relates that the inhabitants of 

 Gothland convert thefucus into a nutritive food for 

 their hogs by the admixture of a little coarse meal or 

 flour to the boiled leaves ; and that in Scania the 

 cottages are covered with it, while it is sometimes 

 used as fuel. In the Hebrides the inhabitants dry 



