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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
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rdinis fupe-rioris^ bona. Gunner. a£f. Nidros. a. p. 82. /. 5./. 4. Gmel. lift, fucor. 108. /. 6./. 2. O^^^r. Z)i2?7. /. 419. ^/-f. ■ Long-forked Fucns. /^«^//j. Upon the fea-beach frequent:. VIII. This is fo nearly related to the preceding, thatthe limits are hardly to be diftinguifhed. It isprobably no more than a variety •, but as thecrreat Linnaus has kept them afunder, wechoofe to continue them feparate, at leaft tillwe have better authority to conjoin them.It is o-enerally of a black fufcous color when fullcrrown, the young fpecimens being dark-redor greenifb.The fubilance and manner of growth is the fame^ as in the foregoing, but the plant itfelf is ge- nerally taller, the branches thicker, and, which is the principal difference, the terminating forks are fubulate, acute, and nearly an mch■ long, whereas chofe of the other are feldom more than two lines.The forks, in a ftate of fruftification; becometumid and full of mucus, as in the preceding.5 ^^ JUtViL rf ^ ■•^ \
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./:^,.^y y^. f >u/(Y/.i //, //v//^<^^. 7^. ,as 933. .^ .-//.t-cr/y .,^^ . xsvir //i ./Ar.;// ^^^^,^ CRYPTOGAMIA ALG^. 933 And the fame kind of rings which are men-tioned to grow on the foregoing are fometimesfound upon this.Both, when exposd for fome time on the beach,turn of a yellowifh white color. pnlmatus F. fronde pahnata pLina. Syjl. nat. edit. 13.^9* p. 815. Sp. pL 1630. n. 26. FVCVS dulcis. : Gmel.hiji. fucor. p. i^^. (Moris, hift. Ox. fe£l.• . • i§. L S. f. I. Gunner. a£i. Nidros. 4. /. 9. Gmel. hijl. fucor. p. 189. /. 26.)Pahnated or fweet Fucus. Anglis.; Dulfe or Dils. S^otis.Duhfh. Hibernis.Duilliofg. Gaulis. Upon the fea-rocks plentifully, particularly on the weflern coafl, and the iliores of the Hebrides. ., J. -r. . Its fubftance is membranaceous, thin, and pellucid. .< Its color red ; fometimes o-reen with a little mixture of red. Its length generally about five _ v: or fix inches, but varies from three inches to a foot. Its manner of growth fan-fhaped,

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