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F U C U S coronopifolius.
B u c k ’s - h o r n F u c u s .
CRYPTOGAMIA Algae.
G e n . C h a r . Seeds produced in clustered turbercles,
which burst at their summits.
S p e c . C h a r . Frond cartilaginous, much branched:
the branches much divided, obscurely veined; when
barren dilated. Tubercles globular, on short, two-
ranked, forked or pointed stalks.
Syn. Fucus coronopifolius. Gooden, and Woodw. Tr.
o f Linn. Soc.v. 3 . 185. Turn. Syn. 2 8 7 - Hull. 3 2 4 .
F. cartilagineus. Huds. 5 8 6 . With. v. 4 . 119.
F. coronopi facie. Dill, in Raii Syn. 4 5 . Herb.
Buddl.
T h i s is most certainly a British species, having been found
several times on the south-west coasts of England, where our
specimen was gathered. Hudson probably knew it, as he
often visited that country, but referred it to the F. cartilagineus
of Linnseus, a species which it much resembles, though
they are indubitably distinct.
Root (according to Mr. Turner) a callous knob. Frond
cartilaginous, of a deep transparent red, compressed, thickest
in the middle, very much branched, crooked or irregularly
zigzag; in the younger parts obscurely veined, as Mr. J.
Sowerby first observed. The ultimate subdivisions when
barren are dilated and palmate; \yhen fertile setaceous, two-
ranked, bearing, at their tips or sides, each a globular red
tubercle of seeds.
Mr. Turner quotes the Nereis Britannica, t. 14, for this
species; but we have not that work to refer to.