1903 | Collins,— Notes on Algae,— VI 231 
Torr. & Gray, l. c. 76 (1838). — Rocky or ledgy banks, northern 
. Maine to the Rocky mountains of British Columbia, south to Nova 
Scotia, eastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island, southern Connecticut, 
central and western New York, Ottawa Co., Ohio, Kane Co,, Illinois, 
and along the mountains to Colorado, Utah, and Oregon, and Cali 
fornia (?). 
Var. connexa, n. comb. Stout: the pods 3 to 3.3 mm. broad. 
— A. connexa, Greene, Pittonia, iv. (1900) 197.— Mountains of Colo- 
rado and Washington, and at Riviere du Loup, Quebec. Passing 
gradually to the species. 
* * Basal leaves pubescent with mostly 3-forked stellate hairs: pods wide- 
spreading or loosely ascending. 
A. BRACHYCARPA, Britton. Similar to 4A. Drummondi: radical 
leaves densely pubescent; cauline glabrous: flower-pedicels soon 
widely spreading or even pendulous: pods 1.7 to 9 cm. long, 1 to 2 
mm. broad, mostly divergent, rarely even somewhat reflexed.— Mem. 
Torr. Cl. v. (1894) 174, Ill. FL, l. c. and Man: I c, in part. 2. 
Drummond and var. brachycarpa, Gray, Man. ed. 5, 69, in part. A. 
confinis, Watson, Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. (1887) 466, in part, and 
(including var. brachycarpa) Syn. Fl. |. c., in part; Watson & 
Coulter, l. c., in part. A. divaricarpa, A. Nelson, Bot. Gaz. xxx. 
(1900) 193.  Zurritis brachycarpa, Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 79 (1838).— 
Sandy soil of open woods, banks and shores, more rarely on rocky 
banks, from Saguenay Co., Quebec, to Saskatchewan and Assiniboia, 
south to Restigouche Co., New Brunswick, Lake Memphremagog, 
Quebec, Lake Champlain, Vermont and New York, Jefferson . Co., 
New York, the Great Lakes, Lee Co., Illinois, and along the moun- 
tains to Colorado. 
GRAY HERBARIUM. 
NOTES ON ALGAE,— VI. 
F. S COLLINS. 
GRACILARIA CONFERVOIDES (L.) Grev. It has been the practice: 
for many years to assign all specimens of Gracilaria from the New 
England coast to G. multipartita (Clem.) J. Ag., the broader forms 
as the type, the. slenderer as var. angustissima Harv. Just outside 
of our limits, politically, Farlow! doubtfully reports another species. 
! Report of the U. S. Commissioner of Fishes and Fisheries for 1871 & 1872, 
p. 289, 1873. 
