A Monograph of the Geniis Alaria. 71 



Ceramium by Stackhouse in 1801, under Muscefolia by the same 

 author in 1809, under Lam'maria by Lamol'EOL'x in 1813, under 

 Orgy la by Stackhouse in 1816 and under Phasganon by Gray in 

 1821. EuPEECHT has given a lengthy discussion on the priority of 

 the generic name for the plant in liis Tange des ochotischen 

 Meeres, p. 365, and he preferred the name Phasganon to others. 

 Gobi in Die Algenflora des Weissen Meeres, p. 77, revived the 

 Orgyia instead of Alaria and Phasganon. 



Whatever the historical records of the plant may be, the name 

 Alaria as a genus under Laminariaceœ is at present so widely 

 adopted that any alteration would result l)ut in confusion. 



Which species of Alaria was first known to science, is also a 

 much debated question. In current references Fucus esculent us in 

 Linne's Mantissa published in 1767 is mentioned to have been the 

 first. RüPEECHT published the view that Fucus alatus described by 

 Caegill in 1720 is undoubtedly the plant that Linxe meant by 

 Fucus esculentus, and should stand in place of it. He also points 

 out that Fucus pinnatus Gl'NNEe (1766) and Fucus teres Good, et 

 WooDW. (1797) are to be synonymized under it. In his Tange 

 des ochotischen Meeres, therefore, the name Phasganon alatum is 

 adopted in stead of Alaria esculenta. Gobi mentioned Orgyia pln- 

 nata as a more legal name tlian these two. Researclies of old 

 hterature and strict hold of the rule of priority might lead to the^ 

 view of EuPEECHT or Gobi. The specific, as well as the generic 

 names adopted by these two writers, however, are pre-Linnean and 

 simply historical. 



The thorough classification of Laminariaceœ we owe to 

 Setchell's work published some twenty five years ago. Ho 

 arranged the then known 19 genera of the family into tribes and 

 subtribes according to the probable affinities, mainly based upon 



