Rbodora 
JOURNAL OF 
THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 
Vol. 1 July, 1899 No. 7 
TO SEAWEED COLLECTORS. 
F. S. COLLINS. 
AMONG the great number of persons, who, within the next three 
months, will make a longer or shorter stay at points on the New Eng- 
land coast, there are undoubtedly many who have seen and admired 
collections of algae, and have hoped, when they had the opportunity, 
to make a collection for themselves. But it is probable that without 
some advice as to where and how to collect, and how to determine 
the plants collected, in most cases little will be accomplished. With 
a view to giving some little assistance in these matters, the writer 
would call attention, first, to the books in which our New England sea- 
weeds are described ; second, to some of the richer and more interest- 
ing localities; and third, to some species, which are known only from 
one, or at most two localities, and in regard to which any further 
information would be a real addition to our knowledge. 
The first great contribution to the literature of American algology, 
and the foundation for all subsequent work, is the Nereis Boreali- 
Americana of W. H. Harvey, published in three parts in the Smith- 
 sonian Contributions to Knowledge for the years, 1852, 1853 and 
1857. It is a quarto, with fifty colored plates, and covers all the 
species known, at the time of its issue, to occur in the United States. 
Though the government supply was long since exhausted, a copy can 
frequently be obtained from the dealers who make a specialty of 
botanical works. 
The next work of importance is the Manual of the Marine Algae of 
New England, by W. G. Farlow, originally published as a supplement 
to the Report of the United States Fish Commission for 1879, and asa 
separate work in 1881. It bears the same relation to the New Eng- 
land marine flora that Gray's Manual does to the flowering plants of 
