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Godium cuneatum S. 8c G. 



Setch. & Gard., 1924, p. 708, pi. 16, figs. 24, 25, pi. 34. Codium reductum 

 Setch. & Gard., 1924, p. 707, pi. 14, figs. 23, 24, pi. 33. 



Specimens given two different names were collected by Johnston in 

 virtually the same locality. Smith Island, the type locality of C. cuneatum, 

 is immediately opposite Los Angeles Bay, the locality for C. reductum, 

 and only a short distance off shore. In habit and general aspect, though 

 differing somewhat in branching proportions, the two type specimens are 

 certainly of the same species, and it seems best to consider them as such 

 in this account. Fresh specimens would undoubtedly confirm the decision 

 more fully, though it seems clear enough that C. reductum is but a less 

 regularly flabellately branched growth form of C. cuneatum. 



In the original account the description of C. reductum immediately 

 precedes that of C. cuneatum, but the type specimen of the former is frag- 

 mentai-y and very much inferior to that of the latter. Hence, according 

 to the International Rules, it is permissible to retain the name bearing 

 the fullest description of the plant. 



Codium anastomosans S. & G. 



Setch. & Gard., 1924, p. 711, pi. 16, figs. 36, 37. 



Plants collected in January and February which match quite perfectly 

 the type of this species are closely branched, + — hemispherical clumps, 

 the branches smaller in diameter than those of C. conjunctum. The spe- 

 cies is here maintained with due realization that the type specimen is 

 probably an immature plant without gametangia, and that further com- 

 parative work is essential before it can be substantiated. 



J. 84e, Puerto Refugio rocks, June. 



D. 109a, Turner's Island, Jan., and 396a, Tepoca Bay, Feb., are 

 mixed in with other juvenile specimens which seem to belong somewhat 

 more probably to Codium simulans. C. anasto7nosa?is, as interpreted here, 

 is of darker color when dry and is attached to the substratum at more than 

 one point. 



Godium MacDougalii sp. nov. 

 Plate S3, Fig. 1 



Frondes 8-10 cm. altae, essentialiter cylindricae, disco 1 cm. lato affixae; ramis 

 irregulariter usque ad 4-plo furcatis, inferne constrictis, latioribus in partibus 

 mediis, usque ad 11-13 mm. tumefacientibus; utriculis longis, gracilibus, 1100 \x 

 longis, superne 125-200 ii latis; gametangiis angustis, fusiformibus, 250-300 |li lon- 

 gis, 70-90 n latis. 



