^42 CRYPTOGAMIA ALGJE. 



plant jufl: deicribed be the ULVA latijfma? 

 Lin. 



The inhabitants of Iceland make a kind of pot- 

 tage with this Fucus, boiling it in milk, and 

 eating it with a fpoon. 



They alfo foak it in fiefh water, dry it in the fun, 

 and then lay it up in wooden veflels, where in 

 a fhort time it is covered with a white effloref- 

 ccnce of fea-falt, which has a fweet tafte like 

 fugar. This they eat with butter •, but if taken 

 in too great a quantity, the fait is apt to irri- 

 tate the bowels, and bring on a purging. 



Their cattle feed and get fat upon this plant, 

 both in its recent and dry Hate, but their fle(h 

 acquires a bad flavor. 



It is fometimes eaten by the common people on 

 the coaft of England^ being boil'd as a pot- 

 herb. 



fanguineus F- frondibus membranaceis ovato-oblongis inte- 

 24. gerrimis petiolatis, caule tereti ramofo. Syjl. nat. 



edit. 1^. p. Si ^. Mantijf. i^6. (Moris, hifl. Ox. 

 p. 6j{5. feB. 1^. t. 8. /. 6. Gmel. hijl. fucor. 

 p. 185. /. 24. /. 2. opt. Oeder. Dan. t. 349. 

 bona.) 

 Dock-leav'd Fucus. Anglis. 

 Upon the fea-fhores not unfrequent. 



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