ECTOCARPACEAE. 589 



1. CoraUina cubensis (Mont.) Kiitz. Tab. Phyc. 8: 37. pi. 77. f. c, e, /. 1858. 

 Jania cuhensis Mont.; Kiitz. Sp. Alg. 709. lS-t9. 



Forming dense cushions on various algae (SaryanHum, Galuxaura Ditfcnra etc ) 

 and on rocks with other algae, in shallow water, often associated witli snt-cies of 

 Jama, ^ew Providence, Berry Islands, Great Bahama, Gun ("ay, ("aicos Islands and 

 Great Bagged Island: — Florida to the American Virgin Islands. Type from Cuba. 



2. Corallina subulata Ell. & Soland. Nat. Hist. Zooph. 119. pi. 21. f. B, b. 1786. 

 On or with Amau.sia iniiltifida, Eleuthera : — Brazil. Type from the West Indies. 



9. JANIA Lamour. Xoiiv. Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. 3: 18(5. 1812. 



The characters relied upon to distinguish the currently recognized European 

 and West Indian species of Jania appear to be unstable and unsatisfactory and 

 the determinations often arbitrary. 



Branches mostly strict and fastigiate, mostly 100-160^1 in diam- 

 eter, the terminal segments usually acute or taper-pointed. 1. ./. nibins. 

 Dichotomies mostly wide-angled, the branches often subdivaricate, 

 recurved, and interwoven, the terminal segments usually 

 obtuse. 

 Segments mostly 90-150 ^ in diameter and 2-4 times as long 



as broad. 2. ./. ailhacrcna. 



Segments mostly 50-1 00 /x in diameter and 4-10 times as long 



as broad. 3. J. cajjiUacca. 



1, Jania rubens (L.) Lamour. loc. cit. 



CoraUina rubens L. Syst. Nat. 1: 806. 1758 [ed. 10]. 



On Sargassum , Chondria, and other algae, from low-water mark down to a depth 

 of 10-20 meters, Rose Island, Great Bahama. Exuma Chain. Watling's Island. Caicos 

 Islands, and Great Ragged Island : — Bermuda ; Florida ; Cuba ; and probably through- 

 out the \Yest Indies. Type European. 



2, Jania adhaerens Lamour. Hist. Polyp. 270. 1816. 



Corallina adliaerens Kutz. Tab. Phyc. 8: 40. pi. 83. f. d, f, g, h. 1858. 



On Sargassum, Bryothamnion, Gclidium, etc., in shallow water: — American Vir- 

 gin I s hinds ; Red Sea; Japan. Type from the Mediterranean Sea (V). 



3, Jania caplllacea Harv. Ner. Bor.-Am. 2: 84. 1853. 



On Sari/assum . pneamatophores of Aciceiinia. etc., in shallow water, and more 

 or less free in lagoons. New I'rovidence, Rose Island. Berry Islands, and Great Ragged 

 Island : — North Carolina and Florida. Type from Bahia Honda, Florida. 



Subclass PHAEOPHYCEAE. 



Family 1. ECTOCARPACEAE. 



1. PYLAIELLA Bon-, Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. 4: 393 (as PilaycUa). 1823. 



1. PylaieUa Antillarum (Grun.) De-Toni, Syll. Alg. 3: 535. 1895. 



Ectocarpus (Pilayella) Antillarum Grun. Reise Novara Bot. 1: 46. pi. -/. /. 

 2. 1867. 



PylaieUa sp. Bornet, Rev. Gen. Bot. 1: 9. 1889. 



PylaieUa Hooperi De-Toni, Syll. Alg. 3: 537. 1895. Probably not Ecto- 

 carpus Hooperi Harv. Ner. Bor.-Am. 1: 143. pi. HE. 1852. 



Forming yellowish brown, subcylindric. wick-like tufts. L.'t-.'i.o cm. high in tide- 

 pools and low-littoral on surf-beaten rocks. Great Stirrup Cay, Berry Islands : — 

 Bermuda to northern South America. Type from Guadeloupe. 



