112 LIST OF MARINE PHANEROGAMS. 



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LIST OF MAEINE PHANEROGAMS. 



Dr. Ascherson, of Ecrlin, has recently given in Ncumayer's 

 ** Anleitung in AYisscnschaftlichen Beobachtungen auf Ecisen " 

 (1874), a book which corresponds to our Admiralty Manual of Scien- 

 tific Inquiry, a revised account of the geographical distribution of the 

 " Sea Grasses," originally published with illustrative maps in Peter- 

 mann's " Mittheilungen " for 1871. The following is a complete 

 catalogue of these singular plants, so far as at present known, with 

 indications of their geographical range, compiled from Dr. Ascher- 

 son's papers : — 



Hydrocharitace^, L. C. Rich. 

 Enhalus, L. C. Eich. 



1. 2i. acoroides, Steud. — {E. Koenigii, Eichard ; Stratiotes 

 acoroides, L. fil.) — Malayan Archipelago, Cape York, Queens- 

 land, Ceylon, Eed Sea. 



Thahissm, Solander. 



2. T. testudimim, Soland. — ^^ Indian Islands, Cuba to Marti- 

 nique, Venezuela, Key West, Florida. 



3. T HemjJrichii, Asch. — {Schizotheca Hemprichii, Ehrb.) — Eed 

 Sea, Zanzibar, Ceylon, Java, Eorneo, Philippine Is., Loo-choo 

 Archipelago, New Caledonia. 



PoTAME.1:, JllSS. 6711. 



Cymodocea, Konig. 



a. Phycagrostis, Willd. 



4. C. nodosa, Asch. — {Zoster a nodosa, Ucria; C. crqtiorea, Kon.) — 

 Mediterranean coast and islands, Cadiz, Canary Is., W. Coast 

 of Africa, S. to Senegambia. 



5. C. rotimdata, Asch. — Eed Sea. 



6. C. serrulata, Asch. & Magn. — {Caulmia, 'R. Er.) — Eed Sea, 

 Nossi-Beh, Coromandel coast, Ceylon, Singapore, S. & E. 

 Australia, New Caledonia. 



b. Amjilubolis, Agardh. 



7. C. ciliata, Ehrb. — {Zosfera, Forsk. ; Thalassia, Kon.) — Eed 

 Sea, E. Coast of Africa, Nossi-Beh, Eeunion, Mauritius, 

 Mapotte, E. coast of Australia. 



8. C. antarctica, Endl. — {Huppia, Labill. ; Caulinia, E. Br.) — 

 Extra-tropical Australia, Tasmania. 



c. Phycoschcrnus, Asch. 



9. C. manatorum, Asch. — (" Manittee-grass," Sloane.) — W. 

 Indian Islands, Key West, Bermuda Is. 



^ 10. C. isoiitifolia, Asch — Eed Sea, Nossi-Beh, Ceylon, India, New 



Caledonia, Yiti Is. 

 Ilalodule, Endl. 



11. n. WrigUii, Asch.— West Indian Is., Key West, W. Trop. 

 Africa. 



