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p. 44, volume dated 1846-1849, this part certainly, then, of 1849) 

 Kuetzing rectifies his error, bestowing on this species the new name 

 of Symploca pulchra. It seems that this last name ought to have been 

 chosen by Gomont for the species, since, according to Bornet and 

 Flahault (1886, p. 356) tlie Calothrix hydnoides of Harvey (in 

 Hooker, 1833, p. 368), upon which Kuetzing founded Symploca 

 hydnoides, is referred to Calothrix pulvinata (Mert.) Ag., but without 

 indication as to this opinion being borne out by examination of the 

 tj'pe or other authentic specimen. 



The inclusion of Symploca hydnoides among our Pacific Coast 

 algae rests upon a single specimen distributed under no. 905 of the 

 Phycotheca Boreali-Americana. This seems too close to the descrip- 

 tion and too nearly in agreement with other distributed specimens to 

 be safeh' separated, but the trichomes are somewhat slender, even for 

 var. genuina Gomont and the dissepiments are usually obscure. It 

 may possibly prove to be an undescribed species. 



2. Symploca funicularis S. and G. 

 Plate 7, fig. 29 



Filaments twisted into fine anastomosing rope-like fascicles 3-4 mm. 

 high ; trichomes aeruginous, slightly torulose, 4.5-5. 5/^ diam., cells 

 quadrate or up to two times as long as the diameter, 5-8yu, long ; sheath 

 hyaline, gelatinous, and diffluent in the fascicles ; terminal cell slightly 

 longer, convex, with small convex calyptra. 



Growing on moist soil and on other plants in a salt marsh. Bay 

 Farm Island, near Alameda, California. 



Setchell and Gardner, in Gardner, New Pac. Coast Alg. Ill, 1918a, 

 p. 469, pi. 41, fig. 29. Symploca atlantica Collins, Holden and Setchell, 

 Phj'c. Bor.-Amer. (Exsicc), no. 1356 (not of Gomont). 



S. funicularis differs from S. atlantica in having a somewhat dif- 

 fluent sheath, in having the filaments often tightly twisted into rope- 

 like threads, in having smaller trichomes, less torulose, and with slightly 

 longer cells; and particularly in the character of the terminal cell, 

 which has a small, depressed, convex calyptra covering only about 

 one-third of the end cell, instead of being "depressed conical" as is 

 the case of S. atlantica as described and figured by Gomont (1892, 

 p. 109, pi. 2, fig. 5; p. 129, Repr.). 



