GULFWEED

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GULFWEED , in botany, a popular name for the seaweed Sargassum bacciferum, one of the

brown

BROWN
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BROWN,
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(1849- )
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seaweeds (Phaeophyceae), large quantities of which are found floating in the Gulf of

Mexico

, whence it is carried northwards by the Gulf Stream, small portions sometimes being borne as far as the coasts of the British Isles. It was observed by

Columbus

COLUMBUS
COLUMBUS,
CHRISTOPHER
- CHRISTOPHER, SAINT (Christophorus, Christoferus)
[in Spanish CRISTOBAL COLON] (c. 1446, or perhaps rather 1451, -15o6)

, and is remarkable among seaweeds for its form, which resembles branches bearing leaves. and berries; the latter, to which the

species

SPECIES

-name bacciferum refers, are hollow floats answering the same purpose as the bladders in another

brown

' seaweed, Fucus vesiculosus, which is common

round

ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

the British Isles between high and low water.

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