l6 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL.98 



RHODOMELACEAE 



Acanthophora spicifera (Vahl) B^rgesen 



In shallow water, probably on reefs, with Ccramium byssoidatm, 

 Old Providence Island, Columbia (Schmitt 46), August 6, 1938. 



Bostrychia binderi Harvey 



Probably from mangrove roots, south end of black beach, Elizabeth 

 Bay, Isabela Island, Archipelago de Colon, Ecuador (Albemarle Is- 

 land, Galapagos Islands) (Schmitt 27), July 28, 1938. 



Bryothamnion triquetrum (Gmelin) Howe 



In shallow water, probably on reefs, Old Providence Island, Colom- 

 bia (Schmitt 50), August 6, 1938. 



Laurencia obtusa (Hudson) Lamouroux 



Bearing numerous epiphytes, in shallow water, probably on reefs, 

 Old Providence Island, Colombia (Schmitt 51), August 6, 1938. 



Pterosiphonia dendroidea (Montague) Falkenberg 



Dredged in 6-10 fathoms off Punta Gorda, off rocky shore to west, 

 and San Jose del Cabo Bay, Cap San Eucas, Baja California, Mexico 

 (Schmitt 10), July 19, 1938. 



These pieces, though slender in axis and branchlets, otherwise com- 

 pare very closely with the specimens from Peru collected by Coker 

 and reported upon by Howe (1914, p. 144), which the writer has been 

 able to examine through the kindness of the Curator, New York Bo- 

 tanical Garden. 



LITERATURE CITED 



BORGE, O. 



1923. Beitriigc zur Algenflora von Schweden 3. Arkiv f. Bot. 18(10): 



I-34- 

 T 933- Schwedisch-chinesische wissenschaftliche Expedition nach den nord- 



westlichen Provinzen Chinas. Arkiv f. Bot. 25 A (17) : 1-18. 



B0RGESEN, F. 



1915-20. Marine Algae of the Danish West Indies. Dansk Bot. Arkiv 



1(4): 1-160; 2(2): 1-68; 3: 1-504. 

 1930. Marine Algae from the Canary Islands especially from Teneriffe 



and Gran Canaria. III. Rhodophyceae, 3 Ceramiales. Kongel. 



Danske Yidcnsk. Selsk., Biol. Medd. IX, 1: 1-159. 



