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F U C U S barbatus.
Beard-like Fucus.
CRYPTOGAMIA Algce.
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 . Frond round, very much branched, without
spines: branches threadshaped. Tubercles
crowded into oblong, terminal, sharp-pointed pods.
Syn. F ucus barbatus. Gooden, and Woodw. Tr. of
L. Soc. v. 3. 128. Turn. Syn. 8 0 . Hull. 317.
F. fceniculaceus. Huds. 515. With. v. 4 . 8 7 - Gmel.
Hist. Fucor. 86. t. 2, A .ƒ. 2.
D r AWN from Mr. Woodward’s own specimen, compared
with one given by Mr. Hudson to Sir T.;Frankland as his
fceniculaceus, gathered on the Devonshire coast.
The whole plant is of a very dark olive brown, almost black
when dry. The frond very much branched in an alternate
manner, threadshaped, rather slender, almost capillary at the
points when barren, destitute of spines, and, as far as we
know, of any dilatation so as to resemble leaves. The fructification
is abundant and very obvious, consisting of small,
elliptical or oblong, pod-like clusters of tubercles, in each of
which the seeds are lodged, doubtless in the manner of F. granulates,
t. 2160.
Mr. Turner considers the granulates of the learned writers
in Tr. o f L . Soc. v. 3. 131, as a variety of this with rather
less crowded tubercles. It is a Yarmouth plant, but not
known to us.