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CHAPTER IX. 



A LIST OF THE BRITISH MARINE ALG.E. 



\_According to the systematic arrangement in Professor Harvey's 

 Phycologia Britannica.] 



" The names are good, for how, without their aid. 

 Is knowledge gained by man, to man conveyed ? 

 But from that source shall all our pleasure flow ? 

 Shall all our knowledge be these names to know ? 

 Then he with memory blest shall bear away 

 The palm from Grew, and Middleton, and Ray : 

 No ! let us rather seek in grove and field, 

 \Vliat food for wonder, what for use they yield ; 

 Some just remark from Nature's people bring, 

 And some new source of homage to their King." — Crahbe. 



Species of which the native locality is doubtful are marked 

 with an asterisk (^) ; those which are doubtful as species 

 and require fui'ther examination are marked with a cross (t). 



Series 1. MELANOSPEHMEiE. 



Fam. 1. rUCE.E. 

 I. Sargassum. 



* 1. vulgare, J(j. 



* 2. bacciferum, Ag. 

 XL Cystoseira. 



1. ericoides, Ay. 



III. 



2, granulata. Ay. 

 ^ 3. barbata, Ag. 



4. foeniculacea, Grev. 



5. fibrosa, Ay. 

 Halidrys. 



1. siliquosa, Lynyh. 



