99 



Navtcula peregrina, Ehn 



Naviciila peregrina. Van Heurck, Syn. Diat. Belg. pi VII. fig. 2; Kiitz. 

 Bacill. p, 97, t. 2S, fig. 52c; O'Meara, Rep. on the Irish Diat. p. 40S, pi. 34, fig. 

 6; Rails in Piit. Infus. p. 906. 



Pinmdaria peregrina^ W. Sm. Syn. Vol. I. p. 56. pi. XVIII. 170. 



Valve linear lanceolate with acute non-constricted extremi- 

 ties ; striae radiate costate reaching to the median line. 



Hab, — Marine, scarce. South Beach and Salt Meadows at 

 New Dorp. (Plate XC. %. ii.) 



Navicula Smithii, var. De Breb. 



Naviada Smithii, Van Heurck, Syn. Diat. Belg. pi. IX. fig. 12; Donkin, 

 Brit. Diat. p. 6; pi. I. fig. 48 ; Breb. in Sm. Syn. Vol. II. p. 92; Ralfs in Frit. 

 Inf. p. 8g8; O'Meara, Rep. on the Irish Diat. p. 3S3, pi. 32, fig. 18. 



Navicula elliptica, Sm. Syn. Vol. I, p. 48, pi. XVII. fig. 152; Kutz. Bacill. p. 

 98, t. 30, fig. 55. 



Valve broadly elliptical with rounded apices ; striae distinct, 

 moniliform, connivent, interrupted on each side of the median line 

 by a longitudinal lunate line. 



//■^^.— Marine. South Beach. (Plate XC. fig. 17.) 

 Donkin gives as synonymous with the above the form of 



Vol. I. p. 53, pi. XVII. fig. 154 a- 



Na 



Wm. Smith remarks: "The insertion of this interesting form af- 



N. 



ay of N. ellip- 

 Mr. De Breb- 



isson informs me that N. elliptlca, Kutz. Bacill. XXX, 55 is a 

 I'resh water form, first found by himself at Falaise; that it is iden- 

 tical with my N. ovalis, and therefore claims priority Over this 

 latter, which must in consequence be superseded. He suggests 



N. 



N. 



that the name 

 marine species, which I had desig- 



M elliptica ; I gladly accept the compliment, and shall 



niake the correction in a future revision of the text 



»> 



Bail 



Kiitzing remarks in his work, published in 1844 as follows: 



Journal for J 



figures on pi. II, (figs. 19 and 20), which closely resemble, but 

 are much larger than our specimens. These forms of N. elliptica 

 according to Bailey are from Virginia. 



