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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 La·ver n. The fronds of certain marine algæ used as food, and for making a sauce called laver sauce.  Green laver is the Ulva latissima; purple laver, Porphyra laciniata and Porphyra vulgaris. It is prepared by stewing, either alone or with other vegetables, and with various condiments; -- called also sloke, or sloakan.
 Mountain laver Bot., a reddish gelatinous alga of the genus Palmella, found on the sides of mountains