te A 
1900] Schuh, — Rhadinocladia, a new genus of algae III 
known to him. In this respect there was no one like him, and this 
trait of character won him the admiration and love of a wide circle of 
correspondents. ‘The amount of his collecting may be known from 
the fact that after his death his duplicates, given to the Gray Herbarium, 
amounted to more than eleven thousand specimens of carefully classi- 
fied plants. Mr. Faxon’s first visit to Willoughby, Vermont, was in 
1873, and for several summers he devoted himself to collecting the 
Willoughby flora. In the later years of his life he found much pleasure 
in the quiet beauty and delightful scenery of that unique mountain 
pass. It is less rude and rough than Smugglers’ Notch, and all the 
peculiar plants are found within a mile or so of the house, while 
the birds that summer in the neighborhood comprise many of 
the rarer New England song birds. It was a treat to go with him on 
a June evening to the knoll overlooking the lake, and listen to the 
hermit thrush, while the sunset glow faded on the cliffs, and some 
stray warbler from the southward announced his summer arrival at 
Willoughby, to Mr. Faxon’s great delight. 
It was fitting that he should close his eyes suddenly and peacefully 
on this beautiful world in such a place, and on such a June evening, 
and leave to his friends the remembrance of a useful and happy life. 
RHADINOCLADIA, A NEW GENUS OF BROWN ALGAE. 
R. E. Scuuu. 
(Plate 18.) 
THE marine flora of our Atlantic coast, from New Jersey north, 
closely resembles that of the other side of the Atlantic, though prob- 
ably not half so rich in species; the finding of a new species is there- 
. fore more of an event here than there, and when that species consti- 
tutes a new genus, it is quite an epoch. Within the past twenty years 
the only such genera have been Euglenopsis and Phaeosaccion, and 
the former of these has been now absorbed in the European Prasino- 
cladus. While it is impossible to say what may not be swallowed up in 
some terrible “OK” list of the future, the form now to be described 
can hardly be included in any genus hitherto recognized by ordinarily 
sane algologists. 
Its nearest connection is Desmotrichum, especially D. Balticum ; 
but in that species the frond is unbranched though with plentiful hairs, 
