ALG OF MAURITIUS. 147 
n. 147). Theocritus says cwegz» 9 ie) ony, Idyl. xii. v. 8. 
From the following passage in Ovid (Met. i. fab. 9), we 
learn that the victors at the Pythian games were crowned 
with a branch of this tree,— 
His juvenum quicunque manü pedibusve, rotive, 
Vicerat Escule? capiebat frondis honorem. 
( To be concluded in our next Number.) 
NOTICE OF A COLLECTION OF ALG/E COMMUNI- 
CATED TO Dr. HOOKER BY THE LATE ` Mgs. 
CHARLES TELFAIR, rrom “CAP MALHEUREUX,” 
IN THE MAURITIUS ; WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW 
AND LITTLE KNOWN SPECIES. 
Bx W. H. HanvEx, Esq. 
FUCOIDE.E. 
l. Sargassum onustum, (Ag. Syst. 305.); caule tereti 
filiformi flexuoso ramosissimo densé setoso, ramis aphyllis, 
vesiculis copiosissimis sphzericis glandulosis spæè mucronatis 
petiolatis, petiolo filifiormi, receptaculis lanceolatis subter- 
minalibus. 
A highly beautiful species, remarkable for its profuse 
glandular vesicles and densely setose branches. Receptacles 
elongated, cylindrical, forming racemes round the tops ofthe 
branches and ramuli: leaves very few, minute, very variable 
in shape, either obovate, lanceolate or linear, spinuloso- 
dentate, the nerve seldom reaching to the middle. 
2. Sargassum cristefolium, (Ag. Syst. p. 291); caule plano 
elongato alterne ramoso, foliis fasciculatis carinatis obovatis 
obtusis seminerviis spinuloso-dentatis laminá dentatá superné 
coronatis, vesiculis paucis marginatis, receptaculis ** conglo- 
meratis.” ( Ag.) 
This curious species, which is at once distinguished by the 
very peculiar lamina or duplication of the upper surface of 
