BOT.-VOL. II.] NOTT—CALIFORNIAN NITOPHYLLA. 3 



In this paper were enumerated the following six species : 

 N. (Neiiroglossum) andersonii J. Kg. (N. under sonia- 

 num)', N.fissum J. Ag. (N. riifrechtiamtm); N.fryeanum 

 Harv. ; N. laceratwn Grev. (N. violaceum); N. latissimum 

 J. Ag. ; N. riifrechtimmin J. Ag. 



In the following year Farlow (1876, p. 695) published a 

 second list, which included all the above mentioned species 

 with the addition of N. areolatum D. C. Eaton (N. latis- 

 simum) and N. sfectabile D. C. Eaton. 



The most comprehensive account of Nitophylhmi yet pre- 

 sented was that contained in the Epicrisis Floridearum of 

 J. G. Agardh (1876, pp. 446-472, 698-701). This account 

 of the genus included all of the species then known to 

 occur on the west coast of North America, with the excep- 

 tion of N. sfectabile D. C. Eaton. To the forms men- 

 tioned by Harvey and Farlow were now added iV^. multi- 

 lobum J. Kg., N. violaceum J. Ag., 2.nA N. jiabelligerum 

 J. Ag. (N. rup?'echtianum). 



Farlow (1877, pp. 238, 245), in a paper discussing some 

 algse new to the United States, comments on some of the 

 species mentioned by him in the two papers of 1875-76, 

 and also gives the original description of TV. sfectabile 

 D. C. Eaton. 



Between 1877 and 1898, the literature pertaining to Cali- 

 fornian Nitophylla consists of Hsts of the forms occurring 

 on the coast, with the exception of Hervey's "Sea Mosses" 

 (1881), a popular work, in which some of the character- 

 istics of color, size and venation of the Nitophylla are 

 described. Several other writers should here be noticed. 

 Dr. C. L. Anderson (1891, p. 224), M. A. Howe (1893, 

 p. 67), Daniel Cleveland, and A. J. McClatchie (1897, p. 

 358) have pubhshed lists of coast forms. No additions 

 were made to the number of west coast forms by any of 

 these writers except the last named, whose paper contains 

 the first mention of the occurrence of N. uncinatum J. Ag. 

 upon the Californian coast. 



The latest and most complete statement in regard to west 

 coast Nitophylla is found in the volume pubhshed by J. G. 

 Agardh (1898). 



