CRYPTOGAMIA ALG^. 933 



And the fame kind of rings which are men- 

 tioned to grow on the foregoing are fometimes 

 found upon this. 

 Both, when expos'd for fome time on the beach, 

 turn of a yellowifh white color. 



pnlmatus F. fronde pahnata pLina. Syjl. nat. edit. 13. 

 ^9* p. 815. Sp. pL 1630. n. 26. FVCV S dulcis. 



: ' Gmel.hiji. fucor. p. i^^. {Moris, hift. Ox. fe£l. 

 '• . • i§. L S. f. I. Gunner. a£i. Nidros. 4. /. 9. 



Gmel. hijl. fucor. p. 189. /. 26.) 

 Pahnated or fweet Fucus. Anglis. 

 ; Dulfe or Dils. S^otis. 

 Duhfh. Hibernis. 

 Duilliofg. Gaulis. 



Upon the fea-rocks plentifully, particularly on 



the weflern coafl, and the iliores of the Hebrides. 



., J . -r. . Its fubftance is membranaceous, thin, and pellucid. 



.< Its color red ; fometimes o-reen with a little 



mixture of red. Its length generally about five 



_ v: or fix inches, but varies from three inches to a 



foot. Its manner of growth fan-fhaped, or 



gradually dilated from the bafe upwards. Its 



divifions extremely various, 



^ The flalk is very Ihort and cylindrical, fometimes 



hardly any at all. 



From two to fix leaves arife generally from one 



root, fome of them frequently fimple, and 



,' ; ' ' either lanceolate or obtufely-oval j but more 



O o o 3 ufualiy 



