Flora Medica

ALGACE.S:.almost horny, and adheres imperfectly to paper. Greville. Recommendedas a popular remedy for pulmonary complaints, dysentery,scrofula and rickets, given in the form of a decoction, made by boilingan ounce in a pint and half of water or milk. It is nutrient, demulcentand emollient. Pereira. On the coast of Ireland it is converted intosize for the use of house-painters, and also employed in lieu of isinglassin the preparation of creams and other confectionary.GIGARTINA.Frond horny or cartilaginous, filiform, cylindrical, irregularlybranched. Fructification uniform ; spherical sessile capsulescontaining a globose mass of seeds. Greville.1350. G. Helminthochorton Greville. Sphaerococcus HelminthochortonAgdh. syst. 235. Fucus Helminthochorton LaTourette in Journ. phys. 1782 sept.t. 1. f. 1. 10. Turner hist,fucor. t. 233. Mediterranean sea. (Corsican Moss.)Frond cartilaginous, terete, tufted, entangled. Stem filiform, creeping.Branches setaceous, somewhat dichotomous, marked indistinctly withtransverse streaks. The lower part dirty yellow, the branches more orless purple. Said to produce nausea and' giddiness.It is used as ananthelmintic, and has been supposed to "be particularlyefficaciousagainst the large round worm (Ascaris lumbricoides).It has also beenrecommended in cases of cancer, in consequence of Napoleon, duringhis imprisonment in St. Helena, having spoken of its efficiencyin thatdisease.632