Dulse

Dulse (Rhodymenia palmata), a seaweed, one of the Florideæ (see SEaweeds), growing on rocks in the sea, and used as food by the poor on the coasts of Scotland, Ireland, and other northern countries. It is eaten raw or roasted, and with vinegar. It is an important plant to the Icelanders, and after being washed and dried, is stored in casks, to be eaten with fish or boiled with milk. In Kamchatka, a fermented liquor is made from it. Sheep are fond of it.—One or two other edible Florideæ bear the same name on different parts of the coast, and the pungent Laurencia pinnatifida is known as pepper dulse.