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woman, when the ship was lying in some foreign port, would mount a 
little lot of pretty "sea mosses” just as she had done at Pemaquid or 
Cape Elizabeth, or some other favorite locality at home. We cannot 
claim it as an exclusively American habit; some readers of RHODORA 
may recall a note of mine! giving account of algae collected by a 
Norwegian sailor, Axel Moe, including some collected by his sister, 
Ragnhild Moe, accompanying him on one of his voyages. It is a 
pleasant idea, not going from home to these places, but taking home 
with one to them. But it was not all pleasure; incidental remarks 
in the letters I have received from kind friends who have helped me 
in looking up this matter show another side. “His second wife was 
badly injured when he lost the ship D. J. Morse.” “My daughter 
was born, on board ship, at Independencia Bay, about thirty miles 
south of the Chinchas, 1875." The conditions under which these 
things happened are now all gone by; Capt. Higgins writes me “I 
commanded ships twenty years, and have been to the Chincha Islands 
twice. Since leaving the sea I have been located here in the lumber 
business, and my past sea life and the old Chinchas seems like a 
dream." 
It is probable that the few specimens now in question are not all 
that Mrs. Nickerson collected; I have gone into some detail as to my 
investigations in the hope that some one reading this note may recall 
some similar collection. The specimens are mounted on good heavy 
paper, almost cardboard; they are neatly mounted, and are in so good 
condition that minute epiphytes on them can be examined and de- 
termined. The following is the list: — 
Uva sp. Too fragmentary for specific determination. 
ENTEROMORPHA PROLIFERA (O. F. Müll.) J. Ag. 
ENTEROMORPHA INTESTINALIS (L.) Grev. 
ENDODERMA STRANGULANS M. A. Howe, in Cladophora fascicularis. 
CLApoPHORA HanroriNA M. A. Howe. Fragmentary. 
CLADOPHORA FASCICULARIS (Mont.) Kütz. A rather open form, 
with long, virgate, but rather flexuous branches. 
*CHAETOMORPHA Linum (O. F. Müll.) Kütz. Fragmentary, but 
fairly characteristic. 
*Ecrocarpus MrreHELLAE Harv. With plurilocular sporangia 
(meiosporangia) somewhat smaller than usual. A plant of wide 
range, common on the shores of the Atlantic from Great Britain to 
1 A sailor’s collection of algae, Ruopora, Vol. VI, p. 181, 1904. 
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