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(1802, p. 30) ill giving" the distribution of his Fkciis Xootk((iu(s 

 refers to Nootka Sound as though it were in the southern hemi- 

 sphere. It seems doubtful to us as to whether Turner's phiut 

 maj' really be Hijpnea musciformis and there seems a possibility 

 that it may be Boiniemaisonia iKunifeni. 



Family RHO D YMEN I AC E.^ . 



Fauchea laciniata J. Agardh. Plate 25. 



Rarely cast ashore. West (^oast of Whidbey Island, Wash., 

 X.L.G., No. 2-40! 



This species, which occurs also on the coast of California, is 

 represented from our territory by both tetrasporic and cystocarpic 

 specimens. The plants have the type of frond characteristic of 

 this species, but it is by the tetrasporic speciineiis that it is the 

 more certainly told from the following. 



Fauchea Gardner! Setchell. Plate 19. 



C()st ashore from deep water. West coast of Whidbey Island, 

 Wash., X.L.G., No. 45!, and in Collins, Holdeii and Setchell, 

 P. B.-A., No. 933! 



Readily told from the preceding, especially by the tetrasporic 

 plant, as may be seen by comparing figure 30 on plate 19 with 

 figure 43 on i)late 25. 



Rhodymenia pertusa (P. & R.) J. Agardh. 



On rocks and stones, upper sublitoral zone. Point Barrow, 

 Alaska, Farloir (1885, p. 192, with some doubt); Amakuak 

 Island, Bay of Unalaska, Alaska, Rnprecht (1851, p. 391, under 

 Porphyra pertusa) ; Prince William Sound and Yakutat Bay, 

 Alaska, Saunders (1901, p. 436) ; Strait of Juan de Fuca, Harveij 

 and Bailey (1851, ]). 371, under B. WilkesH) , Bailey and Harney 

 (1862, p. 61, under the same name); Point Roberts, B. C, 

 Harvey (1862, p. 171); Port Renfrew, B. C, Butler and Polley, 

 No. 17; Whidbey Island, Wash., X.L.G. , No. 50!, and in 

 Collins, Holden and Setchell, No. L! ; in deep water near Seattle, 

 Wash., X.L.G. , No. 162! ; Port Orchard, Kitsap County, Wash., 

 Tilden, No. A! 



