I. VEGETABLES.— Alg^. 



ORDER 1. ALGiE. 



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*Sea lentils, Vitis marina^ Lenticula marina^ Fucus natam. 

 Used by the Portuguese and Dutch in dysuria. 



♦Bladder wrack, Quercus marina, Fucus vesiculosus. Burnt 

 to a charcoal is the vegetable ^thiops of the shops; its ashes 

 yield a considerable quantity of alkali ; other species of fuci 

 furnish this salt, but generally in a less quantity, therefore this 

 is most usually burned for that purpose. This substance, when 

 burnt, is supposed to possess some deobstruent powers, and as 

 such, has been given in bronchocele and scrofulous affections. 

 Its efficacy depends on the iodine which it contains. The prin- 

 cipal use to which the plant has been applied, however, is in the 

 manufacture of kelp. 



*Fuccs xoDosus ; — *F. seruatus. Used for the same pur- 

 poses as bladder wrack. 



♦Pepper dulse, Fucus pinnatifidus. Biting, aromatic taste, 

 eaten as a salad. 



•Daberlocks, Fucus esculentuSf F, teres, F.Jinibriatus, Eaten 

 in Scotland. 



'Gulf weed, Lavery Fucus natans, F. hacciferus. Eaten raw 

 a salad : also pickled, as samphire ; aperient, diuretic, and 



ti- scorbutic. 



•Sweet fucus, Fucvs saccharinus. Washed in warm water 

 nd hung up, a saccharine substance exudes from it : some eat it 

 ithout washing. 



♦Dulse, Dills, Dulesli, Fucus palmatus. Eaten either raw, 

 boiled, or dried, but is very tough. 



*Red Dulse, Fucus edulis. Eaten while raw, also after being 

 pinced with hot irons, in which case it tastes like roasted oysters. 

 A red lake is prepared from it. 



•Ska girdle-and-hangers, Fucus digitatus. Contain a 

 nutritive ielly, more or less saccharine, eaten both by man and 

 6 east ; also burned for kelp. 



•Shield laver, Ulva umbHicalis, Esculent, but requires 

 baking for some hours to render it eatable. 



♦Iceland ska-grass, Ulva latissima ; — *Ovster green, 

 Lichen marimis. U, Lactuca. Are also eaten. 



MoussK de Corse, Ilclminthocorton, CnnfcrDa dlrhofjmui, Fucus 

 Helniintfwrfrrton, Corsican vnrm-moss. This usually contains also 

 »veral kinds of geniculalcd thread-like alga!: vermifuge, taken 



the form of a jelly or thick mucilage. Imported from France. 



♦Crow silk, Uainj river^weed, Covfcrva rividaris. This 



