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List oj tJ.e St, Lawrence Algce. 



The investigations recorded in the foregoing pages originated 

 partly in the researches necessary to the study of the Pleistocene 

 fossils of the St. Lawrence valley, and partly in the interest of the 

 collections placed in the hands of the author by Mr. Bell and Mr. 

 Carpenter. The most useful guide to the study of these collec- 

 tions has proved to be the old work of Otho Fabricius — the 

 Fauna Groenlandica, a wonderful monument of painstaking and 

 accurate research, to which I hope ere long to direct the attention 

 of Canadian naturalists in a comparative sketch of the marine 

 fauna of Greenland, as described by Fabricius and others, and 

 that of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the tertiary beds on its 

 margin. For access to this and some other scarce books, and for 

 aid in the comparison of some doubtful species, I have to thank 

 Dr. Gould of Boston and Mr. Stimpson. 



ARTICLE lY. — A Classified List of 3Iarine AlgcE from the 

 Lower St. Lawrence^ with an Litroduction for Amateur 

 Collectors. By the Be v. Alex. F. Ke3ip. 

 This large and beautiful collection of Algte, which we have 

 here catalogued according to the most recent order of classi- 

 fication, has been put into our hands, for the most part, by a dili- 

 gent and skillful collector (whose name we are not permitted to 

 give), for the purpose of illustrating an interesting department of 

 our Canadian Botany. The Lower St. Lawrence is, we believe, a 

 field for research which has not yet been sufficiently explored. 

 It has all the characteristics to render it the favorite habitat of a 

 very wide range of genera and species. In the colder waters of 

 the north shore, we may expect to find plants peculiar to the 

 Arctic and Sub-Arctic zones, together with those that belong to the 

 temperate shores of the world. Again, the somewhat warmer 

 waters of the southern coast, as far east as Gasp^, with their 

 peculiar shores and bays, will undoubtedly aff'ord forms and species 

 of marine plants, whose limits of geographical distribution reach far 

 into the warmer regions of the south. Further, the junction of 

 the fresh waters of the river with the salt waters of the gulf, will 

 be found a favorite resort for some of the more beautiful and deli- 

 cate species of Algae. We have as yet seen no specimens from 

 this middle region of our waters ; but we have no doubt that 

 somewhere about Grosse Isle, or on the shores of the counties 

 L'Islet and Saguenay, a fine and as yet unexplored field lies open 

 to some enthusiastic collector. 



