126 Vol. XLIII., Art. 1.— K. Yendo : 



Saundek's^) has identified a plant from Kukak Bay with A. 

 laticosta. Ho quotes Kjellman's opinion on his specimen which 

 reads ; " The form, color and consistency of the blade, and the 

 form, width and rigidity of the sporophyll differ somewhat from 

 this species." I do not understand how Saundees could dare 

 identify his specimen with A. laticosta Kjellm. in spite of such an 

 opinion from the author. The points mentioned by Kjellman are 

 the important characters for specific distinction, and the breadth 

 of the midrib, on which Saundees seems to have put great stress, 

 is hardly of specific importance as stated above. 



There are two specimens of Alaria, kept in the herbarium of 

 the Academy of Science of Petrograd under A. esculenta, collected 

 by Postels in 1849. The locality is given as " Sitka (an St. 

 Paul ?) " in Eupeecht's handwriting. One of them is a big plant 

 with the blade about 6 feet in length, 3-4 inches in breadth, the 

 base attenuating and the midrib prominent, 3-4 mm, in breadth ; 

 the stipe is hardly an inch long, but provided with fasciculate, 

 numerous sporophylls of about a foot in length and one third of 

 an inch in breadth. The other specimen has the sporophylls about 

 an inch in breadth and 5 inches in length. These are undoubtedly 

 the specimens related to in Rupeecht's Tange des ochotischen 

 Meeres, p. 360. I could not determine them with accuracy but 

 they seemed to me very likely to be referrable to this species or 

 to A. lancsolata. 



Localiti). Bering Island (Kellman) ; ?Sitcha (Postels) ; Urup 

 Island and Etorofu Island, South Kuriles (K. Miyabe, Herb. S.A.C.). 



1) Saundeks : Harr. Alaska Exj)ecl., Algas, p. 425 



