F Ü C U S ceranoides*
B u c k ’s - h o r n F u c u s .
CRYPTOGAMIA Algcé.
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 somewhat forked, linear, entire^
olive-brown, with a central rib, pinnatifid ; its segments
radiated : extremities tumid when in fructification,
linear-lanceolate, pointed.
Syn. Fucus ce'rafioides. Linn. Sp. PI. 1626. Gooden,
and Woodw. Tr. o f Linn. Soc. v. 3. 149. Turn.
Syn. 136. Hist. Fûcor. v. 2 .51. t. 89» Hull. 320»
N o T very common on the coasts of Britain, nor was it
known to Hudson, Lightfoot, or any other British botanist
(the crispus having been always mistaken for ceranoides) till
the present Bishop of Carlisle.and Mr. Woodward, on seeino-
the true Linnaean specimen, recognised it as a Hampshire
species. Our specimen was communicated by Mr. Turner
from Shoreham in Sussex. To this learned botanist we are
further obliged for showing the linearis of Hudson and
distichus of Lightfoet to be not the present plant, but a variety
of vesiculosus,
F. ceranoides is unquestionably nearly related to this last-
mentioned very variable species; but its pinnatifid form, and
radiating lateral segments, which make a segment of a circle
and at whose extremities alone the fructification is found
are considered by Mr. Turner as sufficient to keep it distinct*
added to the usual narrowness of such segments, and the
constant absence of air-vessels throughout. The barren-,ex-
tremities are very obtuse, but those bearing fruit are sharp-
pointed, and often forked.
This species is more like a buck’s horn than that to which
Ray and his contemporaries gave the epithet ceranoides, though
their plant, being erroneously quoted by Linnaeus, caused
him to adopt the name. We therefore see no inconvenience
in preferring his nomenclature, in itself, to theirs. Le/'/, /e/o. /iu /fu /e d fdJÎ/ijesJiyJéiic/m t.