Flora scotica: or, A systematic arrangement, in the Linnæan method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides

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Title: Flora scotica: or, A systematic arrangement, in the Linnæan method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides
Year: 1777 (1770s)
Authors: Lightfoot, John, 1735-1788
Subjects: Botany Botany
Publisher: London, Printed for B. White
Contributing Library: California Academy of Sciences Library
Digitizing Sponsor: California Academy of Sciences Library

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and fometimes dichotomous. The fruflifications we have never obferved, butfuppofe them to be like thofe of the FUCUS . faccharinus. Though this plant has a llrong refemblance to theforegoing, it evidently appears from the de-fcription to be diftinft-, fo perfeftly diftindl,that it is difficult to conceive how any naturaliftfhould confound them, ejciihritus F, fronde fimplici indivifaenfiformi, ftirpe tetra- 22- gona pinnata folium percuirente. Lin. Syjl. fiat. edit. 13. p. 815. Mantijf. p. 135. n. 40. (F.Jimhiatus. Gmel. hift.fucor.p. 200. t. 29./. i. fed abfque pinnis ad hafin caulis. Gunner. a5l, Nidros. 4. /. 8./. 1. Ocder. Dan. /. 417. Eatable Fucus. Anglis. Badderlocks. Scotis. It is found both on the eaftern and weftern coaftscf Scotland. It was obferved above a centuryzndhzMz^ohy Vir. Cargill^ ntz.r Aberdeen; andwe gathered it at Ail/a Craig, on the v/eilernfliore, and at the ifland of Gigha. Mr. Taldenobfervd it alfo in Bajfe ifland in the Forth. JX.- . ■ •• • This fit
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CRYPTOGAMIA ALG^. 939 / :-3! This Fucus is commonly about four feet long,and feven or eight inches wide, but is fome-times found three yards or more in length, anda foot in width. Small fpecimens are not abovea cubit long, and two inches broad. The fub-ftance is thin, membranaceous, and pellucid;the color green or olive. The root confifts of tough, cartilaginous fibres.The ftalk is about fix inches long, and half aninch wide, nearly fquare, and pinnated in themiddle, between the root and origin of the leaf,with te r a dozen pair.of thick, cartilaginous,oval-obtufe, foliaceous ligaments, each abouttwo inches long, and crowded together. The leaf is of an oval-lanceolate or long ellipticform, fimple and undivided, waved on theedges, and widely ribd in the middle frombottom to top, the ftalk running through itswhole length, and Handing out on both fidesof the leaf. The frudifications we have never feen ; but theyare probably fimilar to thofe of the next fpe-cies. This Fucus is eaten in th

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