The moose will perhaps one day become extinct; but how naturally then, when it exists only as a fossil relic, and unseen as that, may the poet or sculptor invent a fabulous animal with similar branching and leafy horns,a sort of fucus or lichen in bone,to be the inhabitant of such a forest as this!

Tread warily, or you will trip upon the slimy Fucus that fringes the seaward side of every rock.

One glance at a bit of the weed, as it floats past, showed that it is like no Fucus of our shores, or anything we ever saw before.

O'er the warm wave a smiling youth presides, 190 Attunes its murmurs, its meanders guides, (The blooming FUCUS), in her sparry coves To amorous Echo sings his secret loves, Bathes his fair forehead in the misty stream, And with sweet breath perfumes the rising steam.

A species of Fucus, or of Conserva, soon appears in all basons which contain water.

In a similar manner the Fucus natans (swimming) strikes no roots into the earth, but floats on the sea in very extensive masses, and may be said to be a plant of passage, as it is wafted by the winds from one shore to another.

The ship seems to float in the air, and the spectator is often seized with vertigo, while he beholds through the crystalline fluid, submarine groves and beautiful shells glittering among tufts of fucus and sea-weed.

But such as have properly become English words, may form the plural regularly in es; as, chorus, choruses: so, apparatus, bolus, callus, circus, fetus, focus, fucus, fungus, hiatus, ignoramus, impetus, incubus, isthmus, nautilus, nucleus, prospectus, rebus, sinus, surplus.

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.

Humboldt's description is somewhat different: he calls it the "vine-leaved fucus;" says, "the leaves are circular, of a tender green, and indented at the edges, stem brown, and three inches long.

However, this position is not tenable, as a single branch of fucus has never been found on the Florida reef.

Fucus saccharatus.

FUCUS, PALMATED.

Fucus palmatus.

FUCUS, FINGERED.

Fucus digitatus.

Fucus esculentus.

The leaves of this Fucus are very sweet, and, when washed and hanged up to dry, will exude a substance like that of sugar.

[Note 2: The Mare Sargassum of the ancients: also called Fucus Natans, and by the Spaniards Mar de Sargasso.

There is a lesser Fucus bank between the Bahamas and the Bermudas.

tated by Lamouroux, to be found on Fucus natans and in the West Indies; so that the present collection does not present any peculiar Australian generic form.

Colour light yellowish: parasitic upon a fucus.

Colour deep brown; polypidom simple unbranched (?) about half an inch high, parasitic upon a broad-leaved fucus.