F U C U S finuofus*
R ed oak-leaved Fucus.
CRYPTOGAMIA Alga.
G en. C h a r . Seeds produced in cluttered tubercles,
which burft at their fummits.
S pec. C h a r . Stem round, branched. Leaves oblong,
waved, acute, finuated or pinnatifid, fringed with
minute leaflets.
S y n . Fucus. finuofus. Gooden. and I'Voodw. in Linn.
Tranf. v . 3. h i . -H u ll. 316.
* F. rubens. Hudf. 5 73. Lig htf. 943. W ith .v . 4.94.
Stackh. Ner. t. 7.
F. rofeus. FI. Dan. t. 652.
F. crenatus. Gmel. Fuel 184. t. 24. ƒ. 1,
F. membranaceus purpureus latifolius pinnatus.
D ill, in Rail Syn. 4 7 .
A FREQUENT fpecies on all our fea-coafts, generally
remarked by the moft fuperficial obfervers for its elegance of
form and colour. It appears to have efeaped the notice of
Linnseus. Mr. Hudfon miftook it for his F. rubens.
The whole plant is of an uniform red, not fo vivid as that
of a rofe. Under a ftrong magnifier the whole furface, rib and
all, appears thickly ftudded with minute dots, darker than the
general membrane: fee our figure. The item is round, flender,
branched, generally fhort, fixed to the rocks or ftones by a
fmall expanfion of its bafe. Leaves varioufly finuated and
pinnatifid, membranous, often united at their bafe, for the
moft part oppofite, furnifhed with a central rib, ending in a
point. Their margin is beautifully fringed with minute leaflets,
generally pointed, fometimes oval and blunt, in which
feveral minute clufters of feeds are lodged. Similar leaflets
fometimes accompany the nerve. The figures of Gmelin and
the Flora Danica reprefent this Fucus in a more advanced and
proliferous Rate.