FUCATEE, according to Lindley, a natural order of acotyledonous plants; but more generally regarded by botanists as a suborder of a/gcs. The species are numer ous, about 500 being known, mostly growing in salt water. They are distinguiShed from the other algm by their organs of reproduction, which consist of spores and anthe ridia, contained in common chambers or conceptacles, which are united in club-shaped receptacles at the end or margins of the fronds. The antheridia contain phytozoa. The frond is sometimes a stalk expanding into a broad blade, and sometimes exhibits no such expansion. and is either simple or variously branched. Many of the F. are provided with vesicles containing air, by the aid of which they are enabled to float in the water. Some attain a great pyrifcra is said to have fronds of 500 to 1500 ft. in length; its stem not being thicker than the finger, and the upper branches as slender as pack-thread. Most of the F. contain iodine in very considerable quan tity, and some of them are therefore much used for the manufacture of kelp (q.v.), particularly different species of fetus, or wrack, and laminaria, or tangle. On account of the soda which they contain, they are also valuable as manure. Some of them are eatable, containing large quantities of gelatinous matter, as the Dulse (q.v.), tangle (q.v.), and badderkicks (q.v.) of the British coasts, and certain species of saruassum in other parts of the world. The medicinal uses of some of them seem to depend upon the iodine which they contain, and which it is now considered preferable to exhibit in other forms, after it has been extracted.
(Happy City), a city and port of China, and capital of the province of Fuh-keen. It is beautifully situated on the left bank of the Min, 25 m. distant from the mouth of that river, in lat. 26° 3' n., long. about 119° 50' e., and was opened to foreign commerce by the treaty of 1842. The walls of the city are about 30 ft. in height, and 6 m. in circumference, and have seven gates, the gateways of which are constructed of bricks, resting on'a foundation of granite. The bridge of forty or fifty arches over the river :Min, is 12 ft. wide, and about 1200 ft. long. A Buddhist mon astery on Wu-Sid-sham has been converted into the city residence of the British consul. The lacquered ware of F. is of special excellence, and the method of preparing it is known only to one family, by whom the secret is jealously kept. The exports during the season 1874-75 amounted to 96,497,717 lbs. of tea, of which about two thirds went to Great Britain. Its total exports in 1875 amounted to £4,121,496; imports to £1,512, 464. The number of ships which cleared the port, 248; tonnage, 168,088: ships entered, 251; tonnage, 169,518. The chief imports are lead, cotton, woolen goods, and opium. 'The duties on foreign trade are greater in amount than those received at any port in China except Shanghai. The population of the city has been estimated at 500,000.