CRYPTOGAMIA. ALGjE. Fucus. 
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Turn. Hist. 250.— {E. Bot. 2170, E .)—FL Dan. 709 —Lob. Obs. 652. 
and Ic.il 254. 2—Ger. Em. 1573. 7—Parle. 1290. 6— J. B. iii. 798. 
1— Ger. 1380. 6— Gesn. Ap. Cord, a Schmid, ic. lign. 1. 2. 
Rather woody, four to six inches high; growing- in a compact bundle; 
livid, yellowish; black when dried. Branches numerous, divided and 
subdivided, their extremities forked. Lower branches always rounded, 
upper ones sometimes flatted, and ending in long pods with a fork at the ex¬ 
tremity. Gmelin, Fuc. 86. Linnaeus in Syst. Nat. includes the F. barbatus 
of Sp. PL as a variety of this. In our specimens, as in Gmelin’s figure, 
the thread-shaped branches swell out into pod-like substances, princi¬ 
pally toward their extremities. These pods have generally more or less 
length of the thread-shaped branch continued beyond them, but without 
any leafits, divided into blunt segments. It is evident, therefore, that the 
Linnaean specific character does not apply well to the plant we have been 
accustomed to call F. fceniculaceus. (The extreme branches are not un- 
frequently twisted, and in a manner frizzled. Mr. Turner considers this 
plant as distinct from F. fceniculaceus of Linnaeans, and concurs in the 
specific name of barbatus, though he doubts whether it has ever been 
found on the coast of Devon, or in any other part of Britain: it appears 
to be indigenous to more southern latitudes. 
Bearded Fucus. F. fceniculaceus. Gmel. Wulf. Roth. With, to Ed. 7. 
F. barbatus, Linn. Tr. v. 3. E. Bot. Turn. Hist. E.) Rocks and stones in 
the sea on the coast of Devonshire. Huds. P. Jan.—Dec. 
(F. foenicula'ceus. Stem compressed, linear; leaves linear, acumi¬ 
nated, midribbed, and dotted; branches filiform, repeatedly 
pinnated; vesicles elliptical; receptacles growing two or three 
together, lineari-lanceolate, pedunculate, terminal. 
Turn. Hist. 252—E. Bot. 2130. 2131. 
From one to two feet long: but in many respects exceedingly variable. In 
its early stage exhibiting a totally different appearance, consisting of yel¬ 
lowish thin leaves, a line and half wide, with a black midrib, margins 
irregularly serrated. Colour black in the stipes, olive-green in the 
branches. 
Var. (5, F. abrotanifolius. Linn. E. Bot. Stem smooth; vesicles widely 
elliptical. 
Var . y, F. discors. Linn. E. Bot. Found every where flat; leaves wide, 
acuminate. 
This is the real F. fceniculaceus of Linn, and is not unfrequently found 
on the coast of Dorset, Devon, and Cornwall. Sidmouth; Tor abbey 
rocks. Mrs. Griffiths. 
That the Linnaean genera cited above as varieties of F.fceniculaceus are un¬ 
doubtedly so, is confirmed by the researches of that lady. Turn. Hist. E.) 
B. Leaves like a Pod. 
F. siliquo'sus. Compressed; branched: branches pointing two ways; 
alternate; very entire : fructifications on fruit-stalks ; oblong ; 
beaked. 
{Turn. Hist. 159— E. Bot. 474. E.)— Gmel. 2. B— Staclch. 5 — FI. Dan. 
10 6—Giseke 75—Dod. 480. 2—Ger. Em. 1569. 7—Park. 1293. 6. c. 
of the three figures, that on the right hand. 
