508 HoweE: PHYCOLOGICAL STUDIES 
J. Agardh has remarked that in habit Fauchea nitophylloides 
suggests Rhodophyllis bifida or narrow specimens of Nitophyllum 
ocellatum. It may be said that F. (?) mollis suggests the broader 
conditions of these species. In strucuure F. (?) mollis is not very 
different from certain species of Gracilaria of J. Agardh’s sub- 
genus Podeum, section Rhodymenioideae, but the cell walls and the 
frond as a whole are softer and more gelatinous than in any Graci- 
laria that we are familiar with and the large cells of the medulla 
are more hyaline and vacuous than is customary in that section of 
Gracilaria. 
LAURENCIA PANICULATA (Ag.) J. Ag. Sp. Gen. et Ord. Pie Bote, 
L862... . 
Chondria obtusa paniculata Ag. Sp. Alg. 343. 1822. 
La Paz, Vives 22. 
Plants rather more slender and ultimate branchlets more 
elongate than in specimens from La Jolla, California, distributed 
in Phyc. Bor.-Am., no. 1003. 
The current name for the species is used here provisionally, 
though the specific name appears to depend for its priority on its 
publication as a varietal name, which violates all of the current 
codes of nomenclature. Two older names in the specific category 
that are commonly cited as synomyms are Laurencia patentiramea 
(Mont.) Kiitz. and L. glandulifera Kiitz., but the older of these, 
L. patentiramea, according to Montagne’s original figure, does not 
apply very accurately to our Baja California plant and there are 
possibly grounds for doubting the alleged synonymy. The elon- 
gate ultimate branchlets of the Vives plant are rather suggestive 
of those figured by Kiitzing (Tab. Phyc. 15: pl. 63. f. a, b. 1863) 
for his L. paniculata, but they are not distichous or pinnate. 
Kiitzing’s Laurencia paniculata, which, by the way, antedates J. 
Agardh’s, is referred to L. binnatifida by De-Toni: J. Agardh first 
cited it as a doubtful synonym under his own L. paniculata, but 
afterward (op. cit. 3: 651) omitted to refer to it. 
POLYSIPHONIA CALIFORNICA Harv. Ner. Bor.-Am. 2: 48. 1853 
San Felipe Bay, D. T. MacDougal, Feb. 1904. 
The specimens are a little more luxuriant than Harvey’s type 
