THE ALGAE OF BERMUDA. O 



begins with the Hst pubHshed in the Canadian Naturalist by the Rev. 

 Alexander F. Kemp (Kemp, 1857), who visited the islands in 1856 

 and collected somewhat extensively. Sixteen years later J. J. Rein, 

 who had been a tutor in an English family at Bermuda, published two 

 papers on the vegetation of the islands, one of them Avith a list of the 

 algae (Rein, 1873). In 1881 Prof. W. G. Farlow made quite extensive 

 collections, and some of the material obtained was distributed in the 

 set of exsiccatae, Farlow, Anderson & Eaton, Algae Exsiccatae Boreali- 

 Americanae. At a later visit, in 1900, Farlow collected additional 

 species, a few of which were distributed in Collins, Holden & Setchell, 

 Phycotheca Boreali-Americana, but otherwise no publication has been 

 made of the material collected by him. The Challenger Expedition 

 visited Bermuda, and the results are given in a preliminary paper 

 (Dickie, 1874) and in a volume of the Results of' the Challenger 

 Expedition. In these are included the species listed by Kemp and 

 Rein and those distributed by Farlow, with comparatively few addi- 

 tions. In the Journal of Botany George Murray published a Cata- 

 logue of West Indian marine algae (Murray, 1889), including in it 

 the Bermuda lists above mentioned; noting that Bermuda did not 

 belong to the West Indies, geographically or politically, but might 

 be considered as having a similar flora. Setchell, 1912, is a paper 

 calling attention to several species in the Farlow herbarium. Longer 

 or shorter lists of algae occur in local publications, traveller's guides 

 etc., but based on the papers above noted, and adding nothing to 

 what is found in them. Occasional references to Bermuda occur in 

 general works, but only as citations from the works mentioned, or 

 referring to some specimen collected by Farlow. 



Through the kindness of Mrs. Jane A. Sutherland, daughter of Mr. 

 Kemp, we have been able to examine his collection, which still includes 

 nearly all the species listed by him. Professor M. Mobius very kindly 

 sent us for examination the Rein algae, now preserved in the collection 

 of the Senckenbergischer Gesellschaft at Frankfurt a/m.; by the 

 favor of Dr. D. Prain, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 

 we have examined specimens of the species added by the Challenger 

 expedition; and Professor Farlow has given every facility for the 

 study of his rich material, including beside his own collecting, speci- 

 mens collected by G. Tucker in 1856 and Walter Faxon in 1882. In 

 the collection of one of the writers is a considerable number of algae 

 collected in 1890 by W. S. Wadsworth.^ Miss Wilkinson of Ripleigh, 



3 A similar set is in the herbarium of the University of California. 



