350 Transactions. — Botany. 



Identification due to Major Eeinbold. 



Other species of Laurencia are to be found in New Zealand, 

 but they are as yet insufficiently well known. Harvey gives 

 Laurencia pinnatifida as occurring in the Auckland Islands, 

 and I have badly preserved specimens from Cook Strait and 

 Dunedin Heads which may possibly belong to this species. 



299a. Laurencia heteroclada, J. Ag., Epicr., p. 648. 

 Kai-iti Beach (Gisborne) : B. M. L. 



300. Chladymenia lyallii. Fl. Nov.-Zel., p. 235. 

 Bay of Islands : Berggren ; Lyall. 



301. Chladymenia oblong if olia. Fl. Nov.-Zel., p. 235. 

 Apparently common from Banks Peninsula to Bay of Is- 

 lands : B. M. L. Hokianga : Berggren. Chatham Islands : 

 (Agardh; B.M.L.). 



302. Ptilonia magellanica. Fl. Nov.-Zel., p. 233. 

 East Coast : Lyall. 



Not recently collected in New Zealand. 



303. Asparagopsis armata. (Asparagopsis delilei, Fl. Nov.- 



Zel., p. 233 ; J. Ag., Epicr., p. 666.) 

 Dredged at D'Urville Island: Lyall. Lyall Bay (drift- 

 weed), Taylor's Mistake : B. ill. L. Chatham Islands : Dr. 

 Schauinskmd. Dusky Sound : J. G. S. 



304. Delisea elegans. Fl. Nov.-Zel., p. 233. 



Dredged at Preservation Harbour and Akaroa : Lyall. 

 Dredged in 8 fathoms, Akaroa : H. Suter ! Wellington Har- 

 bour (driftweed) : B. M. L. St. Clair, Owaka, Stewart Is- 

 land : J. C. S. 



305. Delisea pulchra, Grev. J. Ag., Epicr., p. 671. 

 Bay of Islands : Berggren. 



Only a single specimen has as yet been found in New 

 Zealand. 



Order Wrangelieee. 



306. Wrangelia lyallii. Fl. Nov.-Zel., p. 236. 

 Euapuke and Preservation Harbour: Lyall. 



307. Wrangelia squarru.osa. Fl. Nov.-Zel., p. 236. 

 St. Clair : J. C. S. Preservation Harbour : Lyall. 



(Vide also J. Ag., Epicr., p. 25, under " Geramium con- 

 fusnm," and p. 52.) 



Order Rhodomelese. 



The species of this order are perhaps less well known than 

 those of most of the preceding orders Some of the genera 

 (e.g., Polysiphonia, B'nodomela) present unusual difficulties, 

 though even where the species are well defined but little work 

 seems to have been done upon them. 



