BY a. u. 8. LUCAS. , r >7 



New records for New South Waits. 



Chondria curdieana Karv., MS. I have gathered thisatWol- 

 longong, Botany Bay, and Port Stephens, Heir. I. ECretschman 

 recently forwarded handsome specimens to the National Her 

 barium from Port Flacking. Some of these attained to a Length 

 of '24 cm., with an equal spread of branches. The species is of ;i 

 beautiful iridescent blue while growing in the water, in this 

 particular resembling its near ally, C. co3rulescens(Cro\iaii) Falk., 

 of the Atlantic and Mediterranean, [twasseni to Harveyfrom 

 V ictoria. 



Bryopsis bacn/i/mt J.A#. Miss M. Klockton found this 

 eleganl Bryopsis growing In a hemispherical mass on the muddy 

 bottom of the Parramatta River al Elyde. The bright green 

 filaments are so dense that the mass appears almost black in the 



water. Kadius of mass about '_!.', inches. The branching is most 



characteristic, the famuli coming off in general alternately, at 



rather long intervals, except at (lie tips of the branches, con 



stricted a1 the base, very obtuse and very Long, It was found 

 by,). Bracebridge Wilson in Port Phillip, probably on the Mats 



about Mud Island. 



We bake the opportunity of reproducing photographically 

 (Plate iv.) a well-grown specimen of Soncfaria bennettiana(H.&vv.) 

 F.v.M. The specimen was among the Algae left by Mr. Charles 

 Moore in the offices of the Botanical Gardens, There is no 

 record of it, hut it was probably dredged in Port Jackson by Dr. 

 K. P. Ramsay. I have never obtained it either cast up or by 

 dredging. 



New records Jot Tasmania. 

 Mr. L. Rodway, Government Botanist, in May, I '.Ml', forwarded 

 bo me, for identification, a very fine collection, made by him, of 

 Tasmanian Alga. I have so far identified 173 species. The 



collection contains a number of forms of great interest. Mr. 



Rod way's specimens are from the Derwent and Huon Rivers, the 



I >'rOnt recast eaux Channel, Southport, and Eaglehawk Neck, and 

 a few from other localities. The Channel especially furnishes 

 rarer species. 



