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(F. -palmatus Cmel. hift. fucor. p. 202. tab. 30. 

 fed non omnia fynonyma. F. arboreus polyfchi? 

 des caule piano et tortuofo. Reaumur. a£}. 

 Gall, lyii.p. 21. /. I. optime.) 



Great furbelow'd Hangers. Anglis. 



Upon the fea-fhores with the preceding, but not 

 common, as at J—- Cclumb-kill, &c. We have 

 obferv'd the fame alfo in Souib Britain, upon 

 the coaft of Cornwall, where it grows fo large 

 that a fingle fpecimen is fometimes a load for 

 a man's fhoulders. . 



Jts general height is about a yard, often lefs, and 

 fometimes a great deal more, even three or 

 four yards . Its fubllance and color is the 

 fame as of the laft defcribed. 



The root is an irregular bulb or tubercle, often as 

 large as a child's head, of a horny cartilaginous 

 fubftance, hollow within, and covered out- 



,_ wardly with fliort rudiments or ftumps of ra- 

 dicles, fo as to appear echinated. 



The ftalk is commonly about two feet long, and 

 ' two inches wide, linear, plain, and riblefs ; of' 

 a thicker fubftance than the leaf; twifted at 

 the bafe, and (except in its youthful flate) ruf- 

 fled or furbelow'd on the margins, particularly 

 near the root. 

 The fummit of the flalk expands fuddenly into a 

 large wide leaf, divided into fword-lhaped rib- 

 lefs 



