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FUCUS VESICULOSUS, L in n .
G e n . C h a e . Frond linear, either flat, compressed or cylindrical, dichotomous
(rarely pinnated), coriaceous. Air-vessels when present, innate,
simple. Receptacles either terminal or lateral, filled with mucus
traversed by a net-w’ork of jomted flbres, pierced by numerous pores
which communicate with immersed, spherical conceptacles, containing
parietal spores or antheridia, or both. Fucus (Z.),—<I>v k o s , a sea-
Fucus vesiculosus; frond flat, coriaceous, thick, linear, dichotomous, quite
entire at the margin, mid-ribbed; air-vessels globose or elliptical,
mostly in pairs (often absent); receptacles turgid, eUiptical, ovate, or
lanceolate, terminal.
Fucu s vesiculosus, lin n . Sp. PI. p. 1626. Innn. M. Lap. p. 366.
I t . Ang. p. 576. Lightf. Fl. Scot. p. 904. Stack. Ner. Brit. p. 3. t. 3. and
p. 12. t. 6. Fsper. Ic. p. 35. 1 .1 3 .1 3 . and p. 160. t. 83. 84. Velley, t.
1. With. Bot. vol. iv. p. 84. Gunn. Ft. Norv. vol. i. p. 48. Both, Fl
Germ. vol. iii. p. 443. Turn. Syn. p. 117. Turn. Hist. t. 88. la i
Ess. p. 18. E. Bot. t. 1066. lyngb. Hyd. Ban. p. 3. t. 1. Ag. Sp.
vol. i. p. 87. Ag. Syst. p. 375. Grev. Orypt. El. t. 319. Grev. Alg. B rit
p. 13. t. 2. Hook. Br. El. vol. ii. p. 367. Wyatt, Alg. Banm. no. 152
Harv. in Mack. Fl. H ii. part 3. p. 168. Harv. Man. p. 30. Kiitz. Fhyc
Gen. p. 351. t. 33, 34, 35, 86. Endl. 3rd. Suppl. p. 29. Mont. El. Ganar
Cell. p. 139. Mont. El. Algier. p. 21. Harv. in Bot. Beechey, p. 163 and 406
F u cus divaricatus, Innn. Sp. PI. p. 1637. lAghtf. El. S co t.p .9 9 9 . Esp,
Ic. 1 .11.
F u cus inflatus, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 1637. Inghtf. El. Scot. p. 910.
Fuo u s spiralis, Innn. Sp. PI. p. 1627. Stack. Ner. Brit. t. 5. E. Bot.
1 .1685. F l.B a n .i.2%6 . Huds. Ft. A n g .-ÿ.611. U g h tf Fl. Scot.'ÿ.'èW.
Fuous volubilis, Huds. Fl. Ang. p. 577.
Fuous Sherardi, Stack. Ner. Brit. p. 73. 1 .13. J. Ag. Alg. Medit. p. 46.
Fuous linearis, Huds. Fl. Ang. p. 578.
Fucu s distichus, Lightf. Fl. Scot. p. 913. (not of Linn.)
ß. subeeostatus ; very small, densely tufted, with an indistinct mid-rib, and
destitute of vesicles.
Fuous balticus, Ag. Sv. Bot. t. 516. Grev. Orypt. Fl. 1 .181.
H a b . On rocks and stones left exposed at low water; also on artificial
piers and quays in æstuaries, extending up rivers as long as the water
remains sensibly brackish. Perennial. Summer and winter. Very
abundant on the B ritish . coasts, ß. in salt marshes, occasionally
flooded. Near Dunstaffnich Castle and Isle of Kerera, Mr. Maughan.
Appin, Capt. Carmichael. Arran, S ir W. J . Hooker. Bute, B r .
Qreville. Baldoyle and Roundstone Bay, (bearing fructifications),
Mr. M ’Calla.
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