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F U C U S bacciferus.
Berry-bearing Fucus.
CRYPTOGAMIA Algæ.
G e n . C h a r . Seeds produced in clustered tubercles,
which burst at their summits.
S p e c . C h a r . Stalk thread-shaped, alternately bipinnate.
Leaflets linear, serrated, with a mid-rib. Vesicles
globose, coriaceous, on round stalks.
S y n . F ucus bacciferus. Turn. Syn. 55. Hist. Fucor.
v. 1. 103. t. 47.
F. natans. Huds. 572. With.v. 4 . 8 6 . Hull. 316.
COMMUNICATED by Mr. Turner, who first distinguished
it from F. naians, with which Linnaeus and other botanists
had confounded it. Both are extremely abundant, floating in
the ocean in various parts of the globe, and thence washed
occasionally upon our shores ; but the present is so much the
most frequent, that we have not been able as yet to procure
the other for publication at the same time.
The root has not been observed. Frond, as we find it, a
foot or more in length, dark olive brown, doubly pinnate in
an alternate order; the stalks round and slender, zigzag,
toughish. Leaflets alternate, on short stalks, an inch or
more in length, linear, narrow, membranous inclining to
coriaceous, strongly serrated, paler than the stalk, and each
furnished with a mid-rib. Vesicles numerous, scattered, on
round stalks a line or two long, of the size and shape of
grains of black pepper, roughish, coriaceous, dark brown,
hollow and smooth within. No fructification has been observed.^—
Both the Fuci abovementioned are comprehended
by voyagers under the appellation of Gulph-weed,