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of Carmel Bay where Mr. Winston and his parents have col 
lected many novelties, and some of the most beautiful Alge 
ever found on our Coast. 
Prof. Farlow, who has examined specimens of this alga, is 
inclined to the opinion that it is the same as Cotlodesma Califor- 
nica of Ruprecht and Kjellman., Coclodesma is the old genus 
Adenocystis of Hooker and Harvey, Flora Antarctica. This 
may be so. But our plant seems to agree so well with the Dic- 
tyotaceze and the genus Punctaria that I am inclined, notwith- 
‘standing differences in structure of frond and fruiting, to regard 
it as belonging properly as above indicated until Coilodesma is 
proven to stand in place of Punctaria, 
DESMARESTIA ACULEATA, Lmx. 
(Class, MELANOPHYCE4:; Order, ECTOCARPACE#. ) 
This alga was collected at Moss Beach, near Pacific Grove, 
by Bradley M. Davis, in June, 1892. The long cord-like 
branches and even the main stems were covered with a fine growth 
of branching filaments. It does not seem to be abundant, as this 
‘*find’’ is the only one I know of. It iscommon on the Atlantic 
Coasts and has also been collected at Kamtschatka, on the north- 
west Coast. 
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DESMARESTIA VIRIDIS, Lmx. 
(Fucus viripis, /7.Dan.; DICHLORIA VIRIDIS, Grev.) 
This is a long known European alga, and was found on 
the Alaskan Coast, but was not discovered on the Californian 
Coasts so far as I know, until: the summer of 1892, when Mrs. 
B. C. Winston collected it in Carmel Bay, adding this pretty 
alga to many other unexpected trophies found in the line of 
natural history on that beautiful bay. 
NEMALION LUBRICUM, Duby. 
(Class, RHODOPHYCEA; Order, HELMINTHOCLADIACE2. ) 
This long known alga, found in the Mediterranean and Adri- 
atic Seas and on some Atlantic Coasts, has recently been dis- 
covered in Monterey and Carmel Bays. ‘‘Worms”’ is the 
common name in these localities, and very appropriately, for the 
