BOTANY 



his disposal the material in his possession, as well as for making extracts 

 of all Norfolk records from the Brit. Jungermannia. 



MARINE ALGtE 



The coast of Norfolk, consisting almost entirely of sandy or muddy 

 shores and having nothing that can be called ' rocks ' excepting a few 

 reefs of large stones or a hard chalk floor, produces but few growing 

 species. Many of the weeds brought up are water-borne, their condition 

 often showing that they have come long distances. There is also no 

 deep water close in shore, and these causes perhaps account for the 

 absence from our list of Laminaria digitata and L. bulbosa, both of them 

 large and conspicuous species which could hardly have escaped notice. 

 The spinous section of the genus Ceramium, viz. C. echionotum, C. acantho- 

 notum and C. ciliatum, is also absent though carefully searched for. The 

 writer has never been able to find even a fragment of any one of 

 them. 



The late Dawson Turner of Yarmouth, in the Historia Fucorum 

 (vol. ii. p. 84), alludes to Lilly Wigg, a Yarmouth botanist, as the dis- 

 coverer of seven species of ' Fuci,' as they were then called, viz. : F. 

 {Delesseria) hypoglossum, (D.) ruscifolius, {Laurencid) dasyphyllus, (Rhodo- 

 meld) subfuscus, {Chrysemenid) clave llosus, [Bonnemaisonid) asparagoides, and 

 {Naccaria) Wiggii ; and also of TJha {Cutkrid) multifida. Conferva {Ecto- 

 carpus) Mertensii, C. {Callithamnion) rosea, and C. {Polysiphonia) stricta, 

 which last is said, in the synopsis of Phycologia Britannica, to be the 

 young state of Polysiphonia formosa. 



Sargassum vulgare, which, as Harvey writes,' has ' no just claim on 

 our Flora,' recorded by Paget, has been omitted. Three other species 

 have been recorded as only occurring once and may be regarded as 

 ' casuals ' : Fucus canaliculatus, Cystoseira granulata and Conferva collabens. 

 A few more species seem doubtful or uncertain, such as Cystoseira barbata, 

 Ectocarpus brachiatus and Cladophora diffusa. 



The nature of our subject prevents any attempt at ' distribution ' of 

 the species recorded. It is true that sometimes for a few days of very 

 fine weather certain species of Algas will be found to come ashore at 

 definite spots day after day, showing their place of growth to be on sub- 

 marine reefs in the vicinity ; but one rough tide will alter all this, and 

 not a single fresh specimen will occur even for weeks afterwards on the 

 same beach. 



The nomenclature and arrangement followed are, so far as the 

 writer can make them by comparison of synonyms, those of Harvey's 

 Phycologia Britannic a?' 



' Man, ed. 2, p. 15. 



^ This list contains but one addition, Bryopsts hypnoides (found at Cromer last year), to 

 that published in the Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society (vol. iii. p. 

 532, 1883). The principal authorities on the subject are C. J. and James (Sir) Paget, Nat. 

 Hist, of Tarmouth, 1 834, and a list drawn up by the Rev. G. Mumford for White's History 

 of Norfolk, 1864. There are also various Norfolk localities mentioned in Harvey's Phycologia 

 Britannica. 



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