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to 30 feet wide. The inner edge of the bed was 20 to 50 feet off shore. 

 There were some dense mats of kelps but in the main the bed was thin. 

 Practically all of the beds were much overgrown with Ulva, Ectacarpus 

 and Antithamnion. The bulbs and stipes were decayed in a few kelps, 

 but in the main both were sound. There were only a few fronds on the 

 kelps. Many had no fronds at all. When present, the number varied 

 mostly from 1 to 5. There were few with more than 5. Such fronds as 

 were still present on the plants showed soral patches at the base. The 

 number of soral patches varied from to 3. Places where 3 to 6 patches 

 had dropped out were still visible. 



16. Miscellaneous data from places other than Lincoln Beach. 



On May 6, 1913, the writer found young kelp plants growing on the 

 piling of the dock at Campbell River, B. C. The plants were from 3 

 to 5 feet long. The fronds still showed basal splitting and no soral 

 patches were found on any of them. 



On June 1, 1913, near Renard Island on Resurrection Bay, Alaska, 

 a kelp bed was found containing mature kelps, practically all of them 

 fruiting and one of them showing any signs of decay. Similar conditions 

 had been observed at Naked Island in Prince William Sound on May 27 

 where the stipes of many of the plants were literally covered with young 

 plants of Alaria, Cymathere and Porphyra. These two observations are 

 representative of conditions observed in Alaska during the early part of 

 the summer of 1913. It was frequently observed at various points that 

 large masses of kelp were drifting loose during the early summer and 

 that the beds thickened very noticeably with new kelps during the middle 

 and later summer. During the observation of June 1, mentioned above, 

 it was noticed that no tide was running through the bed, and that the 

 masses of fronds hung straight down. The same fact was noted at Ko- 

 diak, Alaska, on July 5 and was observed at other places in Alaska during 

 the summer. 



On April 3, 1916, the writer saw young kelp plants about 18 inches 

 long on piling at Pleasant Beach, Washington. On April 11, 1913, he 

 examined several kelp plants collected by Mr. J. Fred W^right of Seattle, 

 at Marrowstone Point, Washington. These plants were, in general, in 

 good condition. They showed no decay and their fronds showed several 

 soral patches, apparently still containing spores. One young Nereocystis 

 plant 8 inches long was attached to the stipe of an old one. On April 25, 

 1915, during a trip from Seattle to Silverdale, numerous small kelps 1 to 

 2 feet long were seen floating in Agate Pass and also near the south end 

 of Bainbridge Island. 



On Feb. 26, 1915, Mr. George A. Schwabland found plenty of kelp 



