974 CRYPTOGAMIA ALG^. 



ceous but yet friable fubflance, and a dark or 

 . blood-red color. 



It finells like Dulfe {^\3C\]S pnhnatus) and bears 

 feme refemblance to it, from whence it obtain'd 

 ..its name. \ 



The Highlanders walli it, and rub it between 



■ • their hands into feme water, fo as to make a 



thin pulpy mixture, and with this they purc^e 

 ' ' their calves. 



laciniata ULVA frondibus planis purpurcis, apice dila- 

 lO* tatis laciniatis undulatis. — Nova /pedes. (Fid, 



.--.. fg. nojl.) : , ' \ ,\. : .. 



Red laciniated Laver. Anglis. 

 We gathered it upon the coaft oijona. Vllf. 

 Several leaves arife from the fame root, each of 

 them narrow and filiform at the bafe, but fud- 

 denly dilated from thence to the top ; deeply 

 . and varioufly laciniated, and waved or plaited 

 on the edges -, three or four inches long, about 

 . . two inches over in the wideft part ; of an ex- 

 ■ tremely thin membranaceous lubftance, and 

 = bright red or purple color. 

 The feeds are vifible with the help of a micro- 

 fcope, and are very minute and numerous. 

 t They are lodged in various parts of the fub- 

 ,-^'" ftance of the membrane, particularly near jhe^ 



■ •; *^d.g£§, appearing like grains of a red powder 



fprinkled^in jows near the margins, and gene- 

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