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FUCUS alatus.
Winged Crimson Fucus.
CRYPTOGAMIA Alg*.
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 membranous, thin, repeatedly
and alternately branched, crimson; its segments
alternately decurrent down the midrib. Fruit in
lanceolate leaflets.
Syn. Fucus alatus. Linn. Mant. 135. Turn. Syn. 144.
Gooden, and JVoodw. Tr. o f Linn. Soc. v. 3. 142.
Iluds. 578. With. v. 4. 95. Hull. 319. Lightf.
951. Stachh. t. 13. Gmel. Fuci, t. 25.
F. dichotomus parvus, costatus et membranaceus. DHL
in Raii Syn. 44.
A MOST beautiful species, common on our coasts, and generally
admired by all who have eyes for the works of nature.
Mr. Turner presumes it to be perennial.
The fronds are 3 or 4 inches high, growing many together
from a small flat disk, repeatedly branched in an alternate or
forked manner, consisting of a dark midrib, bordered with a
fine delicate membrane, running dowp it on each side in alternate,
interrupted, but otherwise entire, portions} the
summits are notched, the rib gradually vanishing there. Several
little, ancillary, stalked, lanceolate leaflets are found occasionally,
especially on old shabby specimens, each containing
in its centre, (the rib being wanting,) a round cluster
of seeds. These we have received from Mr. JBrodie and
Mr. Drummond, Mr. Turner has favoured us with a specimen
in which the seeds are disposed in a line on each side of
the midrib of the uppermost young branches. The colour of
the whole is a beautiful crimson, more or less deep, sometimes
greenish in decay.