Badderlocks

Badderlocks, also sometimes HONEYWARE or HENWARE (Alaria esculenta), an olive-coloured seaweed belonging to the Phaeosporæ (see SEAWEED), and allied to the common Laminaria, which grows on rocks in deep water on the shores of Britain, Iceland, and the northern parts of Europe. It has a short cylindrical stem with lateral spore-bearing processes, and a membranous olive-green frond of 2-12 feet long, with a stout midrib. This midrib, together with the 'fruits,' is eaten by the inhabitants of the sea-coasts of Iceland, Denmark, Scotland, Ireland, &c., and is said to be the best of the esculent algae. The name is supposed to be a corruption of Balder-locks. See BALDER.