64 ERYTHEA. 
upon the Californian coast, and later, Monterey was visited 
for longer or shorter periods by Archibald Menzies, Chamisso, 
Eschscholtz, Douglas, Coulter, and others, whose names are 
so closely interwoven with the history of botany in California. 
Most of these collectors confined their attention chiefly to 
phanerogams, but Menzies, Douglas and Coulter sent back 
to Europe many of the lower plants; and it is to the shores 
near Monterey that several species of the marine alge can 
trace the beginning of their relations with the world of 
science. Among the latter are Mucus Harveyanus, Rhab- 
donia Coulteri, Gigartina microphylla, Chylocladia ovalis, 
var. Coulteri, and probably others like the Gelidiwm and 
Microcladia, bearing the specific name Coulteri, the original 
specimens of which are attributed in a vague way to Cali- 
fornia. It has been from the Bay of Monterey, too, though 
chiefly from the northern shore, that in later years, Dr. ©. L. 
Anderson, the enthusiastic and well known student of the 
California marine alge, has brought to light many new and 
interesting species. It was therefore with pleasant antici- 
pations that I decided to devote the month of July last to the 
collection and study of the “sea-weeds” on the classic shore 
of the Bay of*Monterey. 
To one who has never seen any other coast than that of 
New England, a morning glimpse into one of the tide-pools 
off the rocks near Pacific Grove is a revelation! The 
wonderful clearness of the azure-tinted water under the 
morning sunlight is admirably adapted for showing off 
to the best advantage the many and varied forms of animal 
and vegetable life. The brilliant green of Cladophora scope- 
formis and Ulva latissima is contrasted with the pink and 
white of the corallines which abundantly line the pools, while 
the dull hue of a tuft of Gelidium or Prionitis serves but to 
heighten the bright red of fragments of Callophyllis and 
Nitophyllum which, perchance, have been swept in during the 
night from greater depths. In the bottom of the pool, too, 
it may be, the pretty “sea-anemones” spread their tentacles, 
ora brown and yellow star-fish imagines himself hidden in 
some half-sheltered cranny. 
