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Family GRATELOUPIACE.E. 



yEodes nitidissima J. Agardh. 



Cast ashore, probably growing in tlie sulilitoral zone at a 

 depth of several fathoms. West coast of Whidbey Island, 

 Wash., X.L.G., Nos. Vrll , 4S7!, and in Collins, Holden and 

 Setchell, P. B.-A., No. 946! 



The discovery of this New Zealand species on the coast of 

 California has been announced by one of ns (cf. Setchell, 1901, 

 p. 126) and now we have the opportunity of recording its 

 occurrence in the region of Puget Sound. The specimens dis- 

 tributed show l)oth cystocarps and tetrasporangia and agree in 

 habit and structure with an authentic specimen distributed by J. (t. 

 Agardh. The shiny appearance of the surface of the frond which 

 is responsible for the specific name seems to depend upon age and 

 ('ir(nimstances of preparation of the specimen, being very pro- 

 nounced in some specimens and absolutely lacking in others. 



Grateloupia CutleriiE (Binder) J. Agardh. 



Cast ashore from the upper sublitoral zone. West coast of 

 Whidbey Island, Wash.. X.L.G., Nos. 98!, 185!, 148!. 1!»1! 



The specimens from Whidl)ey Island are all large and more 

 or less pinnate, and agree well with the figxn-es of this species in 

 Kuetzing's Tabulae Phycologica^ (i)l. 35, 36, and 37, especially 

 with the last). Some of the specimens have the "pinna?" large 

 and again once or twice pinnate. Both cystocarpic and tetra- 

 sporic plants have been found. Older forms are to be distin- 

 guished from some forms of Prionitis Li/alJii chiefly by their 

 softer texture. 



Grateloupia pinnata (P. & R.) Setchell. 



On rocks in the upper litoral zone. Norfolk Sound (near 

 Sitka), Alaska, Postfls und Riiprecht (1840, p. 18, under Ii-'uhia 

 j)i)niai<i)\ Port Renfrew, B. C. Butler and Polley, No. 87, and 

 in Collins, Holden and Setchell, P. B.-A., No. 947!: Tracyton, 

 Kitsap County, Wash.. TihJen, No. 222!, niidcr aiuari'ma 

 niicrppJu/Ua. 



