NO. 1 TAYLOR : PACIFIC MARINE ALGAE 23 



clada and Chondrus albemarlensis from the shore. In addition, the very 

 striking Dendrymenia flabellifolia and Asparagopsis Sanfordiana f. am- 

 plissima were secured in quantitj'. 



Several days of activity on other islands intervened before the next 

 visit to a station on I. Isabela. This time it w^as a relatively sterile visit to 

 Cartago Bay on the east coast. A few good pieces of Padina and quite a 

 nice collection of dead shells discolored by boring algae were secured. As 

 the shores were more often rocky than sandy beaches, such shells were 

 seldom secured in the Galapagos. 



ISLA FeRNANDINA^I 



One visit was made to I. Fernandina (Narborough I.), primarily to 

 see and photograph the large colony of marine iguanas there. These 

 iguanas {Amblyrhynchus cristatus Bell) were dark grey-black with 

 moderately long tails, of very pacific disposition and well able to swim in 

 the sea, as the party demonstrated several times for the benefit of the cine- 

 matographer. However, certain features of the algal vegetation were 

 striking. Little of interest appeared on the outer shore rocks, although 

 there was a little Bostrychia about high-water line. The lava was ex- 

 ceedingly irregular and difficult to traverse, until one reached the level 

 ground back from the water's edge. There, the country was open, with 

 scattered clumps of cacti. Inland a salt-water lagoon was found, the bot- 

 tom of which was covered with immense beds of Caulerpa racemosa. 

 About the edges of the lagoon Calothrix was equally abundant. A mem- 

 ber of the party saw and shot a "shell" turtle in another small inland 

 pool, apparently free from vegetation; in its stomach was a quantity of 

 broken algae which when mounted and studied in detail seemed clearly 

 to be Geliditim filicinurn, not otherwise collected on this expedition. 



Isla San Salvador^^ 



Visits were made to localities on both sides of I. San Salvador (James 

 I.) in 1943. On the western side James Bay was visited. The algal col- 

 lecting was very poor, yielding small samples of Enter omorpha and XJlva 

 from the intertidal rocks on the beach. A spectacular feature of the place 

 was a colony of pink flamingoes in a thicket-fringed lagoon behind the 

 beach, and another, less beautiful but quite amusing, was the large num- 

 ber of wary goats in a ravine leading back from the shore. Dredging here 

 yielded Gracilaria panamensis and two other lesser Rhodyphyceae in very 

 small amounts. 



Si Ibid., p. 219, pi. 109. 



32 Ibid., p. 222, pis. 124-128. 



