In Fucus vesiculosus they arise in lateral pairs; in Ascophyllum they are single and median; in Macrocystis one vesicle arises at the base of each thallus segment; in Sargassum and Halidrys the vesicles arise on special branches.
Both organs may occur in one conceptacle, as in Pelvetia, or each may be confined to one conceptacle or even one plant, as in Fucus vesiculosus.
The Fucus giganteus of Solander, so common in Terra del Fuego, is said by Captain Cook to attain the length of 360 feet, although the stem is not much thicker than a man's thumb.
Then would come the landing on a sandy beach, the march through the seaweed up to the wet woods, a fusillade of exploding fucus pods accompanying us as if the outraged fairies were bombarding us with tiny guns.
Bladder wrack (Fucus vesiculosus), burned in a close vessel till it becomes black and friable.
In general appearance the plant not a little resembles those specimens of Fucus vesiculosus which we find existing in a diminutive form, and divested of both the receptacles and the air vessels, at the mouth of rivers.
A host of small marine animals inhabits these tently-moved and evergreen masses of 'Fucus natans', one of the most generally distributed of the social plants of the sea.
Influence of the small submarine sylvan region at the bottom of beds of rooted algae, or on far-extending floating layers of fucus -- p.
We served up the seed-vessels of the fucus as fish.
The figure (20) in the plate was drawn from a conceptacle of Fucus serrátus, another common species, differing from F.
The weeds most valued for the purpose are the Fucus vesiculosus, nodosus, and serratus, and the Laminaria bulbosa and digitata.
The North Atlantic or the region of Fucus proper and Delesseriae, extending from lat.
Fucus marinus vertebratus pisciculi spinum referens Icthyorachius or what you thinck fitt.
November, on the following May, that is, within six months afterwards, was thickly covered with Fucus digitatus two feet, and F.
Close by is a specimen of that rare plant the Fucus Dealensis pedicularis rubrifolio.
Here, bared to the winter sun, droop the long fronds of the Fucus spungiosus nodosus.
The vine-leaved fucus presents a physiological phenomenon of the greatest interest.
Lamoureux, of which the Fucus proliter of Forskael is one of the numerous species, engaged us to rank it provisionally among the sea-wracks, and give it the name of Fucus vitifolius.
Lamouroux, that if the fucus adhere to the rocks with the greatest firmness before its fructification, it separates with great facility after that period, or during the season which suspends its vegetation like that of the terrestrial plants.
The second bank of Fucus is but little known; it occupies a much smaller space, in the twenty-second and twenty-sixth degrees of latitude, eighty leagues west of the meridian of the Bahama Islands.
This current bears the tropic grape into the high latitudes, toward the coasts of Norway and France; and it is not the Gulf-stream, as some mariners think, which accumulates the Fucus to the south of the Azores.
They were the tropic grape, (Fucus natans), which grows on submarine rocks, only from the equator to the fortieth degree of north and south latitude.
However, this position is not tenable, as a single branch of fucus has never been found on the Florida reef.
We saw a considerable quantity of fucus natans, or gulf weed, but it generally was so far from the vessel, that I could not contrive to procure a sprig.
And now we were within the range of the Sargasso Weed, that mysterious FUCUS that makes the ocean look.
In some of the islands off the Scotch coasts, sea-wrack (Fucus vesiculosus) forms the chief support of horses and cattle in the winter months.
Iodine and kelp are prepared to a considerable extent from sea weeds; one species (Fucus tenax) furnishes large supplies of glue to the Canton market, and the orchilla weed is of great importance to the dyer.
I saw long ribbons of fucusdrifting above me, some globular, others tubular: Laurencia, Cladostephus with the slenderest foliage, Rhodymenia palmata resembling the fan shapes of cactus.
Fucus plants and creepers were growing in stiff perpendicular lines, governed by the density of the element that generated them.
The trails were cluttered with algae andfucus plants, hosts of crustaceans swarming among them.
But it's more likely that these grasses, algae, andfucus plants were carried off from the beaches of Europe and America, then taken as far as this zone by the Gulf Stream.
I hear that some will cover themselves with algae andfucus plants.
In these waterways our nets brought up fine samples of algae, in particular certain fucus plants whose roots were laden with the world's best mussels.
They were huge stacks of stones in which you could distinguish the indistinct forms of palaces and temples, now arrayed in hosts of blossoming zoophytes, and over it all, not ivy but a heavy mantle of algae and fucus plants.
This elegant fucus is of the Erica Marina or Sargazo kind, but has much finer parts than that.
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