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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt:...whorled, repeatedly compound; ramuli monilifonn; capsules spherical, with a pellucid border. Chtlocladia kaliformis, Hook. Br. Fl. vol. ii. p. 397. Harv. in Mack. Fl. Hib. part 3. p. 199. Harv. Man. p. 72. Wyatt, Alg. Danm. n. 24. J. Ag. Alg.Medit. p. 111. Lomentaria kaliformis, Gaill. Res. p. 20. Midl. 3rd Suppl. p. 43. Kiitz. Phyc. Gen. p.440. t.55. f.3. Zanard,Alg. Adr. p.97. Mont. Fl. Alg. p.88. Gastridium KAliroKME, Lyngb. Hyd. Danm. p. 70. Grev. Alg. Brit. p. 117. Chondkia kaliformis, Ag. Sp.Alg. vol. i. p. 355. Ag. Syst. p. 207. Sprang. Syd. Veg. vol. iv. p. 342. Hook. Fl. Scot. part 2. p. 106. Gigartina kaliformis, Lamour. Ess. p. 49. Fucus kaliformis, Good. and Woodvs. in Linn. Trans. vol. iii. p. 206. t. 18. 8m. Eng. Bot. t. 640. Turn. Syn. p. 377. Turn. Hist. t. 29. Fccus verticillatus, Lightf. Fl. Scot. p. 962. t. 31. 3. patens; frond flexuous, much attenuated; branches opposite, horizontal, flexuous, drawn out into long slender points; ramuli setaceous, opposite or alternate. Lomentaria patens, Kiitz. Phyc. Gen. p. 440. y. squarrosa; frond crisped and entangled, variously curved; branches densely whorled; ramuli very numerous, whorled, squarrose or arching, slender. Lomentaria squarrosa, Kiitz. Phyc. Gen. p. 440. t. 55. f. 4. Hab. On rocks and stones in the sea, between tide marks, and in from four to fifteen fathoms water. Annual. Spring and Summer. Var. 3. and y. in deep land-locked, sandy or muddy bays. Var. /3. Strangford Lough, Mr. IF Thompson. Carrickfergus, Mr. M'Calla. Var. y. Itoundstone liny, Mr. M'Calla. Torbay, Mrs. Griffiths. (jeogr. Distr. Northern Atlantic. Baltic and Mediterranean Seas. opposite or Descr. Boot minute, scutate. Fronds from six to twelve or twenty inches in length, from the thickness of a crow-quill to that of a g...