FROM THE FALKLAND ISLANDS. 165 
Copium mucronatum, J. Ag. Till Alg. Syst. viii. p. 43. C. tomentosum, 
Hook. f. et Harv. in Fl. Ant. ii. p. 491 (non Stackh.). 
E. Falklands ; Berkeley Sound, Port William, St. Salvador Bay, Hooker ; 
Port Stanley, Vallentin. W. Falklands ; Roy Cove, Shallow Bay, King 
George's Sound, on rocks near low-water line, Vallentin; West Point Island, 
Hennis. 
DısTRIB. Australia, New Zealand, Fuegia. Pacific coast of N. America 
(var. californicum), Japan (?), Scotland, and Ireland (var. atlanticum). 
This plant is evidently common in the Magellan region. Several speci- 
mens collected by various expeditions exist at Kew, and a fine series was 
brought home by Mrs. Vallentin. The alga was listed by Hooker as 
C. tomentosum and referred to by Hariot in 1889 as C. fragile, а Japanese 
species (or form?) to which it is very closely allied. It is, however, un- 
doubtedly the same as J. Agardh's C. mucronatum, which was described 
three years previously from Australia and New Zealand, as, indeed, Svedelins 
has already pointed out ('00, p. 299). The Falkland Island material agrees 
for the most part with var. Nove Zelandiw, J. Ag., but two specimens. 
approach very closely var. tasmanicum. Whether these forms are worthy of 
varietal names is questionable. 
The discovery of C. mucronatum on the west coasts of Scotland and Ireland 
a few years ago was interesting and unexpected, since the plant is not known 
elsewhere in Europe. А fairly full account of its biology and distribution. 
is given in the report on the Marine Alge of the Clare Island Survey 
(Cotton, '12, pp. 114-119). 
ОзткЕовтом QUEKETTI, Born. et Flah. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xxxvi. 
(1889) p. elxi, pl. 9. figs. 5-8. 
W. Falklands, Vallentin. 
Distris. Europe, N. America, probably cosmopolitan. 
Some very fine material, apparently indistinguishable from the European 
form, was found in some shells collected by Mrs. Vallentin in the West 
Falklands. 
PHÆOPHYCEÆ. 
DURVILLEA ANTARCTICA, Hariot, in Notarisia, уп. (1892) р. 1482. D. utilis, 
Bory in @Urville, Flore des Malouines, p. 588 ; Hook. f. et Harv. in Fl. 
Ant. ii. p. 454. 
E. Falklands, Hooker; Kidney Cove, Skottsberg. W. Falklands, Val- 
lentin ; Cape Meredith, Skottsberg. 
Disrris. Chile (Magellan-Valparaiso), Fuegia, Falkland Islands, К. 
Georgia, Kerguelen, Tahiti (teste Grunow), New Zealand, Chatham Islands, 
Auckland Island, Campbell Island. 
The correct name for this plant was first given by Hariot in 1892, a fact 
overlooked by Skottsberg. 
