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FUCUS confervoides.
Warty Fucus.
CRYPTOGA MIA Algæ.
Gen. Char. Seeds produced in clustered tubercles,
which burst at their summits.
Spec. Char. Frond thread-shaped, branched, purplish:
branches unequal, mostly leaning one way^ tapering
at each end. Tubercles hemispherical, lateral, sessile,
acute.
Syn. Fucus confervoides. Linn. Sp. PL 1629. Turn.
SlJ n- 328. With.v. 4. 114. Hull. 325. Gooden,
and JVoodw. Tr. o f L. Soc. v. 3. 208.
F. verrucosus. Huds. 588.
F. marinus purpurascens parvus, caule etramulis seu
foliolis teretibus. Rail Syn. 50.
(2. F. teres rubens minus ramosus, in longum protensus.
Dill, in Raii Syn. 51.
S e n t by Mr. W . Borrer from Brighthelmstone. It is not uncommon
on the coasts of Britain in the autumn or winter.
Root a small flat callous substance, bearing several fronds,
which are various in length, purplish with a brown tinge,
round, of the size of common packthread, much branched.
Branches irregularly situated, each parcel of them pointing
all one way, or nearly so, tapering to a sharp zigzag point-at
their summit, and somewhat contracted towards their base:
sometimes forked or compound. Tubercles numerous, scattered,
sessile, hemispherical with a small prominent point.
Many botanists have confounded this with F.flagelliformis,
u. 17. t. 1222.