93^ CRYPTOGAMIA ALG/E. 



Fingered Fucus, Sea Girdle, and Hangers. Jn~ 

 glh. 



Upon the fea-fhores frequent. 



This is commonly about a yard high, but varies 

 more or lefs. The fublLance is tough and 

 cartilaginous, the color olive. 



The root connfts of thick horny fibres, adhering 

 to rocks and ftcnes. The ftalk is cylindrical, 

 varying from two inches to two fett. in length, 

 and from the fize of a goofe-quill to that of 

 a walking-flick in thicknefs. 



The fummit of the ftalk fuddenly dilates into 4 

 plain broad leaf, which is often a foot wide, 

 divided almoft to the bafe into fword-fhap'd 

 riblefs fegmenrs, about a cubit long, and frorn 

 four to twelve or more in number. 



The edges of the fegments are generally intire, 

 but fometimes a little undulated. 



The frudifications we have never obferv'd, but 

 from analogy it is reafonable to conclude t'lcni 

 to be fimilar to thofe in the FIJ CUSfaccharwus^ 

 defcribed a little below. 



This, and indeed almoft every fpecies of FucuS;, 

 is ufed in Scotland as a manure for land. 



folyfchides F. fronde palmata, foliolis enfiformibus, radice 

 ^.\* tuberolii cava, ftirpe plana marginibus plicatis, 



■ Species Linnao %on dejcripta. 



(F. pal- 



