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lists of species inquirendae given by Bornet & Flahault! no reference 
is made to Nostoc expansum, described and figured in the Wilkes paper, 
p. 164, Pl. VI, figs. 1 & 2 Mme Weber-van Bosse,’ however, cites 
the work, as do the Gepps,* but as will be seen later, the citations in 
both these cases must be revised. 
Page 153 is the subtitle for the algae, and reads "Algae. By 
Jacob Whitman Bailey and William Henry Harvey,” but whenever in 
the following pages the two names are given as Joint authors of a 
species, the order, except among the diatoms, is reversed, being Harvey 
and Bailey,* which as will be seen later, is the correct form. 
There is seldom anything to show whether a name appears here for 
the first time, either as a new species or as a new combination. A 
Latin diagnosis is sometimes given for a species attributed to some 
other author, without any citation; for instance Gymnogongrus 
vermicularis J. Ag.; on p. 164. Few synonyms are given, and in 
some instances they are printed exactly as independent species; for 
instance Fucus vermicularis Turn., on p. 164. Errors in spelling occur, 
like Ectocarpus namulosus for E. hamulosus on Plate VII. All these 
things tend to confuse the writer who wishes to cite from this work, 
but they are only the beginning of his troubles. One genus and four 
species, which have the appearance of being here published, had al- 
ready been mentioned, with sufficient description, by Harvey; the 
genus Chlorodesmis in 1858, Dasya plumosa* Rhodymenia Wilkesii, 
Gigartina mollis,’ G. exasperata? No reference is made in the 
Wilkes paper to any of these earlier publications, with the exception 
of Rhodymenia Wilkesii, where we have in the text, p. 162, “A very 
1 Bornet & Flahault, Revision des Nostocacées Heterocystées, Ann. Sci. Nat., 
Ser. 7, Bot., Vol. VII, p. 177, 1888. 
2 A. Weber-Van Bosse, Monographie des Caulerpes, Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, 
Vol. XV, p. 243, 1898. 
3A. & E. S. Gepp, The Codiaceae of the Siboga Expedition; Siboga-Expeditie, 
Monogr. LXII, Leiden, 1911. 
4The order ‘‘Bailey and Harvey” on the title, while the following species are 
"Harvey and Bailey," seems mere carelessness, but a possible explanation was sug- 
gested to me by an advertisement of a Philadelphia publishing house of a second edi- 
tion of the narrative, Vols. I-V of the government issue. *'' Everything about this 
work wil be STRICTLY AMERICAN...." It may have occurred to some one 
that it would not be STRICTLY AMERICAN to put the name of Prof. Harvey 
of Dublin before that of Prof. Bailey of West Point. 
5 W. H. Harvey, Nereis Boreali-Americana, part 3, p. 29. 
* W. H. Harvey, l. c., part 2, p. 66, 1853. 
7 W. H. Harvey, l. c., part 2, p. 147. 
8 W. H. Harvey, l. c., part 2, p. 175. 
sW. H. Harvey, |. c., part 2, p. 177. d 
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