93^ CRYPTOGAMIA ALG^. 



Ids fcgments, a foot or more in length, about 

 an inch in breadth, and from fix to thirty in 

 number. Thefe fegments are in tire on the 

 edges, often bifid, and fometimes dichotomous. 



The fruflifications we have never obferved, but 

 fuppofe them to be like thofe of the FUCUS 



. faccharinus. 



Though this plant has a llrong refemblance to the 

 foregoing, it evidently appears from the de- 

 fcription to be diftinft-, fo perfeftly diftindl, 

 that it is difficult to conceive how any naturalift 

 fhould confound them, 



ejciihritus F, fronde fimplici indivifaenfiformi, ftirpe tetra- 



22- gona pinnata folium percui rente. Lin. Syjl. 



fiat. edit. 13. p. 815. Mantijf. p. 135. n. 40. 



(F.Jimhiatus. Gmel. hift.fucor.p. 200. t. 29./. i. 



fed abfque pinnis ad hafin caulis. Gunner. a5l, 



Nidros. 4. /. 8./. 1. Ocder. Dan. /. 417. 



Eatable Fucus. Anglis. 



Badderlocks. Scotis. 



It is found both on the eaftern and weftern coafts 

 cf Scotland. It was obferved above a century 

 zndhzM' z^ohy Vir. Cargill^ ntz.r Aberdeen; and 

 we gathered it at Ail/a Craig, on the v/eilern 

 fliore, and at the ifland of Gigha. Mr. Talden 

 obferv'd it alfo in Bajfe ifland in the Forth. JX. 

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