FUCUS ESCULENTUS. ESCULENT WINGED FUCUS.
FUCUS esculent us-, fronde membranacea, plana, costata, simplice, ensiformi, integerrima, stipitata,
stipite abbreviate), terete, pinnato ; pinnis camosis distichis, oblongis, planis, enervibus,
semina mrnformia immensa includentibus. Turn.
FUCUS esculentus. Lmn.Mant. p. 135. Huds. Angl. p. 578. With. Bot. Arr. ed. 4. ml. 4. p. 92.
Lightf. Fl. Scot. p. 938. t. 28. Turn. Syn. Fuc. ml. 1. p . 104. Hist. Fuc. ml. 2.
p . 12 2 . t. 117. Esper. Ic. Fuc. ml. 2. p. 30. t. 19,6. Engl. Bot. t. 1759. Wahl. Fl.
Lapp. p. 494.
FUCUS fimbriatus. Gmel. Hist. Fuc. p. 200. t. 29. f . 1.
FUCUS tetragonus. Good, et Woodw. in Linn. Trans, ml. S.p. 140.
FUCUS teres. Good, et Woodw. in Linn. Trans, ml. S .p. 140.
FUCUS pinnatus. Gunn. Fl. Noro. ml. 1 . p. 96.
FUCUS Scoticus latissimus edulis dulcis. Raii Syn. p . 46.
Norw. Beutare. Lidet toreblad. Skaalmetare. Scotch. Badderloclcs.
Class a n d Ord e r . CRYPTOGAMIA ALGAL
[Natural Order. ALGA5, Linn. Juss. Decand.]
Gen. Char. Semina tuberculis confertis apice dehiscentibus innata. Gooden, et Woodw.
Ge n . Char. Seeds within scattered tubercles opening at the extremity. Gooden, and Woodw.
Radix fibrosa, fibris horizontalibus brevibus, crassis,
ramosis, sublignosis, nigrescentibus.
Stipes ad altitudinem trium vel sex pollicum, nigro-
fuscus, tereti-compressus, superne pinnatus,
pinnte seu iigulæ ab uno ad septem pollices, horizontales,
distichæ, approximate, plante, liné-
ari-lanceolatæ, basi attenuate, apice rotundatæ,
omnino enerves, substantia carnoso-coriacea.
Fiions solitaria, bi- vel tri-pedalis ad viginti ulnarum
longitudinem, (utdicit Gmelinus,) membranacea,
ensiformis, latitudine bipollicaris ad pedalem,'
margine undulata, integerrima, apice attenuata,
et semper fere lacerata, laciniis transversalibus,
nervo seu costa fusco, compresso, a basi usque
ad apicetn percursa. Frondis color, junioribus,
olivaceo-viridis, glaber, adultis sordide fuscus;
superficies punctis elevatis sparsis, fibras parvas,
pallide fuscas, fasciculatas, emittentibus ; substantia
frondis membranacea.
Fiiüctificatio in pinnis, qute tune magis incrassate
sunt. Semina sub superficie latentia, numerosa,
minuta, parallela, pyriformia, basi attenuata,
glaucescenda, apice globulo pellucido terminate.
V Portion of an old frond, with fascicles of fibres ;
fibre ; magn. Fig. 4. Portion of a stipes, with two p
ot ditto, dissected ; to show the disposition of the se'
magnified.
Root fibrous, the fibres horizontal, short, thick, branched
somewhat woody, blackish.
St ip e from three to six inches high, blackish-brown,
cylindrico-compressed, the upper part pinnated;
the pinhffi or ligules from one to seven inches
long, horizontal, distichous, approximated, plane,
linear-lanceolate, attenuated at the base, rounded
at the apex, altogether nerveless;-the substance
between carhose and coriaceous.
Frond solitary, from two or three feet to twenty ells in
length, (asGmelin says,) membranaceous, swordshaped,
from two inches to a foot in width, with
the margin waved, entire, the extremity lengthened
out and almost always lacerated with transverse
segments, furnished from the base to the
apex with a brown compressed nerve or midrib.
The colour o f the frond, in the younger plants,
is olivaceous-green, smooth, in the older ones
dirty brown; the surface having scattered elevated
dots, which send forth sdvall, pale brown,
fasciculated fibres : the substance of the frond is
membranaceous.
Fru ctification upon the pinn®, which are then more
incrassated. Seeds lying under the surface, numerous,
minute, parallel, pyriform, attenuated at
the base, glaucescent, at the apex terminated by
a pellucid globule.
not. size. Fig. 2. A fascicle of fibres. Fig. 3. Single
nnie in a state of fructification. Fig. 5 and 6. Portion
ds. Fig. 7. Seeds;—all but fig. 1 and 4 more or less
«otKy snores in the greatest abundance, and inn mmee ss:au-water lakes,
“*Y ™5,pf . S ~ W"f’TI>fVOf l'irfV?nd WaleS-: ""d in Irela“d hls H meT ^a r Belfast and in Barntry
country in' M m I of, Icelf d “ d Norway it is extremely abundant; and Gmeiin quotes Kamtschatka as l
TkLrLs rafen ‘/h ^ 8" found ■' but believe it has been met with nowhere south of the British Isles.'
01 keys? as they a r e^ll^lT “IT a,"ay3-e?ten are ,tbe ““drib stripped of its foliaceons part, and the pinme,
the wtoieTn an tS d lr f i y *d f? 01,01,111 g«“5™l—;mrklcs by the natiyes of Orkney. The provincial name for
call it Tare or Jlnc/are™^ 1S ^ a^ erf)ccs’ or Hcn-warc; in the Orkney Islands Honey-ware. The Norwegians
due to CS l“br bSjP expressing our doubts how far the pyriform bodies upon the pinna: (the discovery of which was
form, colour » 1 rlSbt ‘.°,be considered seeds, or at least perfectly formed seeds. Neither in
then it may he nhf '5 n ° U',ey acLcorc " ,lb what are usually considered seeds in other species of the genus: but
^Pointoutany ^ w h S m a ^ . “ differentfrom f others * 80 8°> ^ e e d , that we canfte
3fipes;eanrWahUnhp^PlantS *°u thlf Spe<?es .a foot or more in length which have been destitute of pinnte on
a great part of the f T 1 1 l,he S!'FSls naked for the firstyear. bu‘ that in the following spring, when
swelling, arise M S B — 1 the lddl,e P°rtlon of 1 swells, is somewhat dilated, and that from these
PiuntB were visibfe I t „ i ’ °" ,Ule “ther hand’ ,eUs us that a« «k Carr Rock in the Firth of Forth, the
•tan were discernibl.t«. ™ ,'.si year> but, P lants OI1'y a very few months old; and that the rudiments of
weeks. ■ ln some wblcb were onty '%ee or four inches long, and which had sprung up but a few
and ilstore\he^ppetite'MaWescu^ei*tus is recommended in the disorder called the Pica, to strengthen the stomach