344 Transactions. — Botany. 



255. Nitophyllum polyglossum, J. Ag., Sp. Alg., vol. iii., 



part iii., p. 79. 

 On the shores of New Zealand : (Agarclh). 



256. Nitophyllum semicostatuvi, J. Ag., Epicr.,p. 699. (Sp. 



Alg., vol. iii., part hi.', p. 80.) 

 Dunedin : Berggren. Akatore, Brighton, St. Clair : 

 B. M. L. I have a fragment apparently belonging to this 

 species from Kekerangu. 



257. Nitophyllum d'urvillei. Fl. Nov.-Zel., p. 240. 



This species was formerly confused with the preceding by 

 Agardh and Harvey, but Agarclh states (Sp. Alg., vol. iii., 

 part iii., p. 80) that he is compelled to say that he has not 

 seen any specimens of this plant, and further considers that 

 he cannot give any opinion as to its identity from an examina- 

 tion of the original figure (Borv, Voy. " Coquille," tab. 19, 

 fig- 1). 



258. Nitophyllum multinerve, J. Ag., Epicr., p. 464. (Sp. 



Alg., vol. iii., part iii., p. 57.) 

 Massacre Bay, Chalky Bay : Lyall. Tauranga : Berggren. 

 Paterson's Inlet, Akatore, St. Clair : B. M. L. 



259. Nitophyllum minus. Fl. Nov.-Zel., p. 241. (J. Ag., 



Sp. Alg., vol. iii., part iii., p. 66.) 

 Not recently collected. It may be doubted whether the 

 form reported from New Zealand is that originally de- 

 scribed by Sonder. 



260. Nitophyllum smithii, Hook, and Harv., Crypt. Anat. 



Ant., tab. 178. (J. Ag., Epicr., p. 454.) 

 Chatham Islands, Dunedin Wharf : B. M. L. 



261. Nitophyllum dilapidum, J. Ag., Sp. Alg., vol. iii., 



part iii., p. 77. 

 Sent from New Zealand to Agardh by Baron F. von 

 Mueller. 



262. Nitophylkim{? ?) microphyllum, Crosby Smith (Mscr.). 

 On the back of a Haliotis shell, Green Island beach : J. C. S. 

 Mr. Crosby Smith has furnished me with the following 



description of this plant, which seems to be a new and dis- 

 tinct species, belonging perhaps to a new genus. In all 

 particulars except one it belongs to Agardh' s tribe Monanthece, 

 sub-genus Aglceophyllum, genus Nitophyllum ; but, though in 

 its vegetative structure its place is exactly here, its cruciately 

 divided tetraspores would seem to throw it outside the genus 

 Nitophyllum altogether. I have, however, retained it here for 

 the present, marking the genus with two queries. The dis- 

 covery and examination of the cystocarps may help to deter- 

 mine its position more exactly. I have deposited specimens 

 in the Canterbury Museum. 



