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FLUSTRA. Linnaeus, 
Generic Character: Polypidom plant-like, membranaceous, 
flexile, frondose, or crustaceous; formed of cells arranged 
quincuncially, in several series, in one or two layers ; cells 
in juxta-position, more or less quadrangular, flat, with 
distinct borders; the apertures transverse, semi-lunar, 
Valvular, subterminal. 
* Foliaceous, cells on both sides. 
SROAD LEAVED SEA-MAT. F. Foliacea . Flat, 
branched; branches palmate, truncated ; cells in longi- 
tudinal rows, alternate, arched at the distal, narrow at the 
Proximal extremity, armed with four or five marginal 
denticles. 
. Fucus telam lineam sericeamve textura sua mmulans, 
Ran Svnon, p. 42. Flustra foliacea, Ellis and Solanders 
Zooph.; p. 12, pi. 2, fig. 8. Broad leaved Horn Wrack, 
Ellis’ Cor., P . W, pi. 29, no. 2, figs, a A, C, Flustrafo- 
J a cea, Turtin’s Lin., vol. 4, p. 603; Templeton in Mag. 
^at. Hist., vol. 9, p. 409 ^ 1 , Fleming s Brit. An., p. 535. 
Johnston’s Brit. Zooph., p. 283, figs, 1, 2. Stewarts Elem., 
v °l. 2, p. 435. 
Hab. On stones from deep water. Whitsand Talland- 
Sa nd, and Mevagissey bays, Goran; common, irequently 
hashed on shore. 
This species grows to the height of four inches, in flat. 
Palliated tufts, and is one of the most elegant of all the sea 
^ats ; when living it is of a lively flesh colour, which, in 
d «ath, turns to a dusky white. At the base, it is rounded 
:‘ r ‘d narrow, but soon gets expanded and flat as it ascends, 
branches are broadly palmate and ‘^ncated Cells on 
sides, from the base to the apex, contracted below 
Htl °ve rounded and dilated, with two pair of n tl ° *,? 
^ternal rim, which are shorter than the diameter ot the cell 
frequently emits an odour resembling taat of violets alter 
a & bower. 
^APER, SEA-MAT. F. Chartacea. Cells quadrangular, 
bulging about the middle; apertures unarmed. 
Ellis’ Coral., p. 38, figs. 8, o. r. Flustra papyracea, Ellis 
Solander’s Zooph., p. 13. Fleming s Brit. An., p 53o, 
°' 140. F. chartacea, Turton’s Lin., vol. 4, p. 603. Stew ’ 
an ’s Elem., vol. 2, p. 430. Johnston’s Brit. Zooph., p. 284. 
, Uab. On a shell from deep water, eight leagues south of 
ie Deadman ; very rare. 
