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opposite or alternate blmit. Gmelin. Fuc. 155. Leaf three to six inches 
long, strap-shaped, below narrower and thicker, brownish red, towards 
the end paler and yellowish; segments blunt. Huds. n. 30. It is found 
either very much divided into blunt segments, in branches rising from 
the root with a naked stem, at first wide at bottom and tapering like a 
fern leaf: or divided alternately and distantly into short blunt seg¬ 
ments, not at all, or rarely sub-divided; or lastly it forms a matted 
covering 1 to the rock as thick tufted as a moss, and not more than one 
and a half inch high. Its colour variable from olive to deep red, of a 
tender stucture, and pellucid. These plants fructify m the segments, 
the seeds may be seen imbedded, and with high magnifiers perforations 
become visible. On cutting these parts the seeds are discharged in the 
field of the microscope. This is. the only marine-plant I know which has 
a strong odour of a peculiar kind. It has improperly been called Pepper 
Dulse , for it does not in the least resemble that spice, though it has 
a biting and disagreeably aromatic flavour. Mr. Stackhouse. It varies 
very much in size, from one to six inches high, and the. leaves from 
nearly the breadth of a straw to the slenderness of a small pin. 
(Jagged Fucus. Scotch, Pepper Dulse. Chondria phmatifida. Turn. 
Hook. E.) F. pinnatifidus and F. multifidus. Huds. Rocks and stones 
in the sea in Devonshire and Hampshire. Bill of Portland, Mr. Stack- 
house. (Cornwall, Sir T. Frank! and.'* E.) 
F. (1) Cylindrical, opake. 
F. lycopodioi'des. Cylindrical, but little branched, entirely covered 
with short bristle-like leaves. 
{Turn. Hist. 12—E. Bot. 1163. E.)— FI. Dan. 357. 
Grows upright, hardly a foot high : but little branched, covered on every 
side like a Lycopodium with bristle-like leaves about half an inch long. 
Linn. About nine inches high, as thick as a quill; branches few, thinner: 
colour dark reddish-purple, the whole entirely covered with short bristle¬ 
like leaves. 
(Club-moss Fucus. On marine rocks near Scarborough, but very rare. 
Mr. Travis. At Cromer, Mr. Woodward. The Hebrides, Rev. H. 
Davis. Bates’s Island, near Hartley Pans, Northumberland, Mr. Winch ; 
who observed it growing on the stems of F. digitatus, and on the coast 
near Tynemouth, in abundance. E.) 
F. TOMEN r ro f sus. Thread-shaped but compressed; repeatedly forked; 
velvety; angles at the forks rounded ; the ends blunt. 
{Turn. Hist . 135— E. Bot. 712. E.)— Stackh. 7— H. Ox. xv. 8. row 2. 7— 
Pet. Gaz. 4. 12. 
Plant about six inches high, of a fine grass-green, sometimes inclining to 
olive. Stem short, roundish, hollow. Branches nearly all of a size, 
which is that of a small quill. When taken fresh from the sea and 
viewed in a bason of water, it looks like a sponge; when a little drained 
it has a most beautiful soft, velvety appearance. On examination under 
a powerful microscope it seems to be a collection of tubes set in a stiff, 
solid membrane, without the least resemblance to the fructification of a 
Fucus, so that I expect it must form a new genus. Stackhouse. 
(It is frequently eaten as a sallad in Scotland. E.) 
