THE FLAGELLATES AND ALG^E OF THE DISTRICT 

 AllOUND lUUMlNGHAM. 



(Compiled from records left by the late Professor G. S. West, 

 M.A., D.Sc.) 



Br W. 13. GiiovE, M.A., B. Mujukl Bristol, D.Sc, 

 AiHD Nellie Cahteii, D.J-'c. 



I^^TKODUCTJEY NoTE. 



The following lists of Flagellates and Algie found in the district 

 around Birmingliam are compiled and arranged aluiost entirely from 

 the records made l)y Professor G. S. West during the last thirteen 

 years of his life (100G-1919). Besides the large amount of material' 

 which he collected himself, it was his custom to look carefully through 

 tlie numerous collections brought from vai'ious localities by the 

 undersigned, and by his students and others, making a list of all the 

 different species he saw. These lists w^ere kept by him with a view 

 to publication at a future date. His lamented death leaves them 

 very incomplete, and without the benefit of his final revision and the 

 notes which he would have added from his unrivalled knowledge ; yet 

 it is thought that it would be well to publish them, since the deter- 

 minations are particularly valuable as being those of one who was the 

 foremost British expert on the Freshwater Alga3. 



The large number of records from Sutton Park is the result of the 

 special attention devoted by Professor West to that area, which 

 owing to its extensive moorland tracts and submontane character is 

 very different from most othei* parts of the district. Here, during 

 the years 190(J-1909, he collected material in every month of the 

 year, including monthly samples of the plankton of the pools. It 

 was his intention to use these records as the basis of an ecological 

 account of the Algae of that area, but no attempt seems to have been 

 made at beginning this work, except his account of the " Peridiniea; 

 of Sutton Park," which was published in the New PJtytoIogiat, 1909, 

 pp. 181-196. 



In the records from the Park reference is frequently made to 

 three bogs ; of these Bog I is the large bo.f gy area above Longmoor 

 Pool, Bog II is the similar ground situated on the south-west side of 

 Little (Upper) Bracebridge Pool, and Bog III is that above the 

 upper end of Blackroot Pool. 



All the species contained in the following lists, by whomsoever 

 collected, where the locality is not followed by the finder's name, were 

 seen and named or confirmed by Professor West ; those collected bv 

 any wdiose names are appended may be taken as having his approv:'.), 

 exce]:)t those which have been discovered since his death ; these latter 

 have been identified by Mr. W. J. Hodgetts, M.Sc, and have the 

 locality enclosed in square brackets and followed by his initials. 



The localities have been arranged under three heads: — wk.=: War- 

 wickshire, ws. = Worcestershire, st. = Staffordshire. The actual 

 months in which the various species were collected are indicated, after 

 the name of the species, by the Arabic numerals 1-12. 



Thanks for liberal assistance in defraying the costs of this publica- 

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