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F U C U S dafyphylloe.
'Thick-leaved Fucus.
CRYPTOGAMIA Alga.
G e n . C h a r . Seeds produced in cluttered tubercles,
which burft at their fummits.
S p e c . C h a r . Stem round, branched. Branches
thread-thaped, generally Ample. Leaves fcattered,
cylindrical, obtufe, tapering at the bafe.
S y n . F ucus dafyphyllus. Woodw. in. Tr. of Linn.
Soc. v. 2. 239. t. 23. f . 1 — 3. v. 3. 1 1 9 . With.
v. 4.112. Hull. 316.
M R . LILY WIGG of Yarmouth, fo eminently fkilful in
detecting, as well as in preferving, fpecimens of marine alga,
appears to have been the original difcoverer of this plant on
the beach near that town, where it has been feveral times
found wafhed up by the tide, and from whence Mr. D. Turner
communicated our fpecimen. The plant has been feen
growing at Cromer by Mr. Woodward, to whom we are obliged
for the only original accounts of this fpecies hitherto publifhed.
The Item is fixed by a {lender bafe to the rocks or ftones,
-and is round, fucculent, fcarcely a fpan high, furniflied from
the very bottom with feveral irregularly fcattered branches of
the fame cylindrical figure, tapering at their infertion as well
as towards their points ; the lowermoft generally fubdivided}
the reft fimple. Leaves very irregularly fcattered, obovate, or
father cylindrical and blunt, with a very taper bafe. The
' general colour is a pale red, often verging towards a green.
The fru&ification confifts of dark-red clufters of feeds, either
fcattered over the branches, as in Mr. Woodward’s figure, or
lodged toward the extremities of the leaves, as in ours.