unbranchecl specimen of this (for the genus) handsome species. 

 Older specimens frequently are pinnated with closely-set, long 

 branches. The branches are usually quite simple, resembling 

 the bushy tail of some animal, but the likeness to a squirrel's 

 tail, indicated by the specific name, refers rather to the copious 

 villosity than to the shape. 



In the locality at Port Fairy I found it in considerable 

 abundance in the month of October. Most probably it is an 

 annual of rapid growth. 



Whether Agardh will acknowledge it as a species of his 

 Myriocladia remains to be seen. I have not been able to de- 

 termine exactly, from the dried specimen, the structure of the 

 axis. In habit there is much resemblance to M. capensis, J. 

 Ag., but the structure is certainly different. 



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Fig. 1. Myriocladia Sciurus, — the natural size. 2. Cross section of the 

 axis and some of the peripheric filaments, most of them cut off short. 

 3. Portion of a filament : — the latter figures variously magnified. 



