Rhbodora 
JOURNAL OF 
THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 
Vol. 26. October, 1924. No. 310. 
THE FLORA OF PENIKESE, FIFTY YEARS AFTER. 
Edited by I. F. LEwrs. 
(Plates 146 and 147.) 
INTRODUCTION. 
THE island of Penikese, lying in Buzzard’s Bay, twelve miles south 
of New Bedford, is the westernmost of the Elizabeth Islands. It 
is famous among American biologists as the first home of the Anderson 
School of Natural History, better known as “ Agassiz's Laboratory,” 
the sessions of which were held in 1873-1874. In 1873 a botanical 
survey of the island was made by one of the brilliant members of the 
group of students attracted by the Master. Itis not very generally 
known that David Starr Jordan, distinguished as a zoologist and 
author, began his scientific career with “The Flora of Penikese 
Island," published in the American Naturalist, volume 8, April, 
1874. 
The fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the Agassiz school at 
Penikese was held in the summer of 1923. At the same time a biolog- 
ical survey of the island was undertaken jointly by workers from the 
United States Bureau of Fisheries Laboratory and the Marine Biologi- 
cal Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. One day was devoted 
to collection, July 24, and casual visits in August added a few obser- 
vations. The following collectors undertook the botanical side of 
the survey: 
Marine Algae 
Alice E. Brown Helen Duckworth 
Annette Brown Janet P. Jamieson 
Edward S. Castle James B. Lackey 
Ralph E. Cleland Ivey F. Lewis 
