FUCL 
and many others having leaves pointing upwards, 
po i Doth paces webs rh ‘tb the ii t. The 
shaves afford’ tribe of fuci equally different from those 
of other parts of the world. They belong to the fuci 
proprii, and are all composed of a stem repeatedly pin- 
nated with different series of branches, the whole ot 
which, as well as the stem itself, are flat, and formed, 
as it were, of a set of distinct joints, placed upon each 
other in a sort of zigzag direction ; the branches almost 
always arising from the flat part of the stem, and not, 
as in Europe, from the angles. This tribe of fuci was 
brought to light by our justly celebrated countryman, 
Mr Brown, > ater his voyage with Captain Flinders 
and residence in Van Diemen’s land already alluded to, 
M. Labillardiere having happened to observe only one 
= of the tribe: this one was the very remarkable 
. Banksii, (Turn. t. 1.) which occupies on the Austral 
asian shores the place of our vesiculosus. Instead of our 
serratus, these shores possess F.confluens, (Turn. t. 141.) 
a species which resembles it, but wants the midrib. 
The place of our large digitatus and bulbosus is there 
supplied by a distinct species considerably resembling 
, described and figured by Mr Turner under the 
name of F, radiatus, t. 134. 
The temperature of the ocean in different regions may 
be su to vary much less than that of the land: on 
account of the moveable nature of the element, the means 
of tion of fuci must be more easy than in 
the case of land plants: and the waters of the sea ap- 
almost every where to teem with the seeds of fuci. 
Te is not surprising, therefore, that some tropical spe- 
cies should make their aj ce in high latitudes, or 
that particular kinds should be found in places the 
most remote from each ere — tg ia ov 
opposite. Fucus agarum is found chiefly in the In- 
dian Ocean; but it occurs also at Nova Scotia and in 
Hudson’s Bay. F. cartilagineus of Linneus, (Turn. 
t. 124.), which is abundant at the Cape of Good Hope, 
and often ered there to form ornamental pictures, 
is found on the shores of Finmark ; and F, flagelli- 
formis of Flora Danica, (t. 650.) is found both at the 
North ie of Norway, and at the southern promon- 
tory of Africa. Some are most widely distributed over 
the globe, but are not abundant in any particular quar- 
ter. F. musciformis of Wulfen (Jac. Coll, iii. t. 14.) 
has been found on the coast of France in the Adriatic, 
off the coast of Egypt, at Ceylon, in the West Indies, 
at New Zealand, and in Nootka Sound.  F. thyrsoides: 
is marked by Mr Turner (yok i. p; 38.) as found at 
New Zealand by Sir. Joseph Banks, at Jamaica by Dr 
Wright, and in the Red Sea by Lord Valentia. EF. tur- 
binatus, Lin. (Turn. t. 24.) is a native equally of the. 
seas of the East and West Indies. F. acanthophorus 
of Lamouroux, (Turn. t.. 32.) is found..on-the coast of; 
North: America and in the Red Sea. -F; Wrightii of. 
Turner, (t. 148.) on the shores of Jamaica and the.Red 
Sea. F, triangularis (Turn. t. 33.) has been picked up 
at Jamaica, New Holland, and New Zealand. Several 
species inhabit the shores on both sides of the Atlantic, 
as the common kelp weeds, F. vesiculosus and nodosus, 
F. dentatus, which is common in the Frith of .Forth, 
grows also in the Chesapeak. Some other. British 
species are very widely disseminated over the- world. 
The elegant pinastroides of our shores. was observed on 
the coast of New Zealand by, Sir Joseph Banks;:and. has 
been found also at Ceylon. F. fibrosus (Turn. t. 209.) 
is common to England and the coast of Guiana; F. plica- 
tus, tothis country and New Holland. F. tomentosus, 
(Turn. t. 135.) which occurs on the southern shores of 
England and Ireland, has been found also in the Medi- 
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terranean, in Nootka Sound, and at the Cape of Good 
Hope. A very common British species, F. siliquosus, in« 
habits likewise the Mediterranean and Adriatic, and has 
been‘observed at Newfoundland, and in the Chinese seas. 
A local disposition may be traced in some cases. In’ 
the East Indies, for example, the Straits of Sunda have 
afforded two curious species, with leaves resembling 
holly, and dwarf-oak, I’, aquifolias and ilicifolius of 
Turner (t..50, 51.) The uncommon looking F. muri- 
catus of the same author, (t. 112.) is a native of the’ 
same Straits. None of these have hitherto been found 
elsewhere. F, tenax, (Turn. t. 125.) one of the most: 
useful of the tribe, is peculiar to the seas of China. The: 
Caulerpe may be considered as belonging to the Red! 
Sea and New Holland, At the Cape of Good Hope, 
the place of our digitatus and bulbosus is occupied by 
F. buccinalis, (Turn. t, 139.) which is often auedd 
floating about in great quantity, and, from its fistular’ 
and inflated stem, has received from navigators the 
name of trumpet-weed : by them its appearance is hail- 
ed as a sure prognostic of the vicinity of the Cape. 
F, flaccidus of Turner (t. 61.) is there parasitical on the 
larger fuci, like alatus and coccineus with us. Two 
Cape species are remarkable for being elegantly fringed 
along the margin, F. erinaceus (Turn. t. 26.) and F. 
vittatus, or ribbon. weed, (t. 64.) Some are peculiar to 
the north-west coasts of America. Among these may 
be mentioned F.. Menziesii, (Furn. t? 27.) named in 
honour of Mr Menzies, who attended Captain Vancou- 
ver in his voy: 
searches in the 
to light only in a tardy and almost accidental manner, 
he having received no encouragement from Government 
to publish his many botanical discoveries. To it may 
be added F. herbaceus, of Turner, (t. 99.) resembling a» 
broad-fronded ligulatus ; two others of Turner, F. os- 
mundaceus (t. 105.), cordatus (t. 116.), and F. floccos 
sus of Esper (Icones, t. 100.) ; with F. costatus of Tur- 
ner, (t..226.) curiously ribbed. Others of the north- 
west American species are found’also in other countries : 
F. bracteatus (Hist. Fuc. t. 25.) occurs at the Cape, and 
F. ovalis (Id. t. 81.) is common to Nootka Sound and 
the shores of Britain. A few may be set down as pe- 
culiar to the Mediterranean, as F. nervosus of Decan« 
dolle ( Turn. t. 43.), and linifolius of Turner, (t. 168.) 
F. purpurens, ( Hist. Fuc. t. 224.) is very plentiful in 
the Mediterranean ; but it is likewise found in the Red 
Sea. F..viridis, which is met with on the southern 
shores of England, but so sparingly as to be accounted 
a botanical discovery, occurs abundantly as a parasite 
on F. vesiculosus and. serratus on the coast of France. 
These; as is -well known, are two of our most common 
kelp fuci on the shores of Scotland ; but in this country 
F, viridis never appears upon them. The very elegant 
small species F. asparagoides and Wigghii, (Hist. Fuc. 
t. 101,102.) have not, it is believed, been found beyond 
the precincts of the British islands, and have more fre- 
quently occurred on the beach at Yarmouth than else. 
where. 
scribed as creeping like a jungermannia, on the red 
sandstone rocks at Sidmouth in Devonshire. (Ner. 
Brit. t. 6.) A few may be ranked «as arctic species ; 
particularly F. distichus of Linneus, (Turn. t. *) and 
ramentaceus, (t. 149.) F. lyeopodioides grows plenti- 
fully on the most remote shores of Norway, and occurs 
sparingly. on. the coast of Seotland... F. soboliferus 
(Flor, Dan.-t. 1066.) is common-in-Finmark, and has 
been detected on the:shores of the Orlmey Islands by 
Mr Fothergill. F. plumosus is one of the ornaments of 
the shores of the south of Evglarid:; but it increases in 
of discovery, but whose valuable re-: 
ent of natural history are brought’ 
Puci: 
—— 
F. pusillus seems also to be local, and is de~ 
