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habitu K. odoratae, Vahl., a qua spiculis longioribus, nuce oblonga, 
imprimis autem stylo valido basi srievisadade longe distat. In nulla 
alia specie Kyllingiae stylum talem observavi 
hizoma brevissimum, lignosum. Culimas solitarius, 14-20 cm. 
altus, gracilis, sed firmus compresse trigonus, laevis, superne 
plurifoliatus, basi paullo incrassatus. Folia culmo multo breviora, 
2 mm, lata, complicato-plana, longe attenuata, acute carinata, 
oe divaricatis wafielta enki 7mm. in iametro, compa acta. 
Spiculae numerosae, demum patule divaricatae, lanceolato-ovatae, 
4°5 mm. longae, pee i ne a. Squamae floriferae naequales, 
stramineae, in acu breve lanceolatum obtusiusculum rectum 
productae, in carina ee pe ine utrinque 3-4-nervosa, florem 
hermaphroditum fovens, superior binervis, florem d includens. 
ux cum squama inferiore aequilonga, oblonga, nigra, nitida, dense 
punctulata, apiculata. Stylus validus, basi conspicue incrassatus. 
Stigmata 2 longa. 
PICAL Arrica. Angola: Mossamedes; near Hum 
co places, 1830 m., H. H. W. Pearson, 2774; ibidem tame 
O. Stapf), H. H. Ww, Pearson, 2079 et 2767. 
XIV.—ON THE INCREASE OF COLPOMENIA SINUOSA 
IN BRITAIN. 
A. D. Corron. 
The marine alga Colpomenia sinuosa was first recognised on the 
British coast in September 1907, and an account of its appearance 
in the English Channel was ‘shortly after published in the Kew 
Bulletin (1908, p. 73). Being a conspicuous plant, and one 
growing between the tide-marks, there could be no doubt whatever 
that it was a recent introduction. At that date the alga was only 
known in England from Torquay and Swanage, but within the last 
three years it has been received from various places on the coast of 
orset, Devon and Cornwall; it probably now extends along 
the whole shore from Lands End to the borders of Hampshire. 
In certain localities it occurs in extraordinary abundance, being the 
in th 
ee pa and the locality being a niet cia one for observation, 
of access from London, it was decided to coe Hae the Aas 
