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are frequently entire. If F. vesiculosus receive an injury or fracture, 
in any part of the leaf, provided it be in a healthy vegetating state, it 
constantly throws out abundance of young leaves from the injured part. 
If even a small aperture be made in the middle of it, a new leaf on either 
side will be found to shoot out. I have rarely discovered this proliferous 
tendency in F. serratus. Major Yelley. (The terminating bladders 
when broken off are also replaced by a number of smaller ones. Mr. 
Turner. 
Bladder Fucus. Scotch, Sea-ware. Gaelic, Feamatnn. Mr. Turner has 
lately reduced F. spiralis, and F. angustifolius to varieties of this species. 
Vid. Hist. Fuc. E.) Rocks and stones in the sea, common. 
P. Jan.—Dec.* 
F. nYtans. Stem thread-shaped, branched: leaves spear-shaped, 
serrated : fructifications globular, on fruit-stalks. 
{Turn. Hist. 4 6—F. Bot. 2114. 1967. E.)— Pet. Fil. xix. 11. 10. 12— Lob. 
Obs. 653. 3. Ic. ii. 256.2 — Ger. Em. 1615. 2 — Park. 1281, right hand 
figure. 
Fructifications sometimes ending in an awn; in some plants very short pods 
composed of minute warts, are found in the bosom of the leaves. Linn. 
Fructifications like juniper berries, but always hollow. Leaves sessile, 
oblong, spear-shaped, varying in breadth, serratures alternate. Gmel. 
Fuc. 93. Plant doubly winged : leafits mid-ribbed, varying much in 
breadth, rather toothed than serrated. Besides the larger external glo¬ 
bules called frucifications, there are other minute granulations within the 
substance of the leaves. 
(Float Fucus. Gulf Weed. F. bacciferus. E. Bot. E.) Sea-shores. Isle of 
Sheppey; Northumberland; and thrown on the shore near Falmouth. 
(At the foot of Castle Eden Dean. Mr. W. Backhouse, jun. Winch 
Guide. E.) P. Jan.—Dec.t 
F. seta'ceus. Thread-shaped, very much branched; branches alter¬ 
nate, two-rowed: bladders elliptical, in the substance of the 
leaf: leaves bristle-shaped. Huds. 575. 
{E. Bot. 1969—Gmel. Fuc. 90. t. 3./. 2. E.) 
Branches nearly upright, zigzag. Leafits alternate, upright, tiled towards 
the ends of the branches. Vesicles growing in the substance of the stem 
and branches, about the size of a vetch. Huds. n. 8.—Gmelin describes 
his plant thus. Substance cartilaginous, six inches high, brownish green. 
Stem flat, twisted at bottom, quarter of an inch over, short. Branches 
* (This plant is an excellent manure for land. In the islands of Jura and Skye the 
cattle regularly feed upon it during winter. In Sweden this fucus boiled with meal 
serves as food for hogs, and hence is called Swintang : and it occasionally affords 
thatching and fuel. From five ounces of the ashes may be procured two ounces and a 
half of fixed alkaline salts. Preparations of it have been recommended as a resolvent, 
deobstruent, and dentifrice, by Dr. Russel; even mammillary schirrosities, he 
affirms, have been dispelled by this treatment. Calcined in the open air, it forms 
the basis of his Vegetable fEthiops. But its most important use is for making potash 
or kelp, many tons of which are annually prepared for exportation in the Western Isles. 
Turn. Hist. E.) 
j- (Extremely abundant in various parts of the world : and occasionally found in such 
extensive masses in the Atlantic Ocean, as, according to travellers, to give the sea an 
appearance resembling meadows. Prepared with vinegar, it furnishes a pickle not in¬ 
ferior to samphire. It is used as a salad, eaten with lemons, pepper, capsicum, and 
ginger, in the East Indies. It is also medicinally employed as an aperient, diuretic, 
and antiscorbutic. Turn. Hist. E.) 
