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water (about 50 m.). This specimen was 

 large, about 2 cm. high and occurred in a 

 collection of various other algae which Dr. 

 MoRTENSEN most kindly sent me. 



Neomeris annulata seems to be rather 

 common on the shores of the Danish West 

 Indies. 



I have specimens from St. Thomas, the 

 French Wharf in the harbour at Charlotte Amahe, 

 Bovoni Lagoon; St. Jan, off Ramshead (leg. Dr. 

 Mortensen) in a depth of about 50 m; St. Croix, 

 Lime Tree Bay. 



Geogr. Distrib. West Indies, South America, 

 Indian and Pacific oceans. 



Fig. 57. Neomeris 



mnmlata Dickie. 



Habit of plants in 



different stage of 



development. 



(About 3:1). 



Sub f am. 2. BomefeUeae. 

 Batophora J. Ag. 



Batophora Oerstedi J. Ag. 



J. Agardh, Nya algformer. Ofversigt af kungl. Vetenskaps-Akade- 

 miens Forhandlingar, Arg. 11, 1854, Nr. 4, p. 107. M. A. Howe, Phycolo- 

 gical Studies, II. Bulletin Torr. Bot. Club, Vol. 32, 1905, p. 578. BorGesen, 

 1. c, p. 273. 



Dasydadus occidentalis Harvey, Nereis Bor. Americ, Part III, 1858, 

 p. 38. 



Botnjophora occidentalis (Harv.) J. Ag., Till Algernes System., 5. Af- 

 deln., p. 141, 1887. 



Coccocladus occidentalis Cramer, Ueber die verticillirten Siphoneen 

 (Neue Denkschr. schweiz. naturf. Gesell. Bd. XXX, 1887, p. 37). 



Coccocladus occidentalis, laxus Howe, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, Vol. 31, 

 1904, p. 95. 



Exsicc. Collins, Holden and Setchell, Phycotheca Boreali-Ame- 

 ricana, Nr. 667. 



As Howe has pointed out (1. c. 1905, p. 579), J. Agardh 

 most probably forgot his old description of this species from 1854, 

 as in 1887 when writing his paper on the Siphonese he had this 

 alga before him and then gave it the new name Botryophora. 

 Of the original material collected by 0rsted at St. Croix 

 several (7) specimens are to be found in the Botanical Museum 

 of the University in Copenhagen ; on the label which belongs to 

 them, 0RSTED has written: »Bryopsis??? Ad radices Rhizopho- 

 rae Mangle in sinu substagnante, Krauses lagoon, insul. St. Cru- 

 cis« and above it on the same label J. Agardh has written: Wo- 



