FUCUS ligulatus.
Green Strap-leaved Fucus.
CRYPTOGAMIA Algae.
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 flat, without veins, somewhat cartilaginous,
doubly pinnate: its segments linear,
acute, opposite, fringed with spinous teeth.
S y n . F ucus ligulatus. L ig h tf 946. t. 29. Gooden,
and TVoodw. Tr. o f Linn. Soc. v. 3. 123. Turn.
Syn. 99. With. v. 4 . 101. Hull. 317.
F. herbaceus. Huds. 5 8 2 .
F o r specimens of this Fucus, cast up on the Yarmouth
beach, we are indebted to Mr. Turner and Mr. Wigg. Two
or three years ago, after much stormy weather, they were remarkably
abundant on that coast j otherwise the species is
rare, and, as Mr. Turner observes, not noticed by foreign
writers. It is mentioned as having also been found in Sussex,
Northumberland, and Scotland.
Root small, supposed by Mr. Turner to be annual, as the
plant is regularly thrown up by the sea chiefly from June to
August. Frond from 2 to 6 feet long, flat, veinless, of a
delicate pale green, turning to a light brown by age or exposure
to the air, most elegantly divided, in a doubly or even
triply pinnate mariner. The main branches are linear, the
ultimate ones approaching to lanceolate, as they taper to a
point at each end. Their situation is nearly opposite, and
they spread in two ranks. The edges are finely fringed with
taper teeth; No fructification has been observed.