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exposed shores it is most often to be found on rocks of coral in 
small crevices and depressions receiving thus some shelter. A 
single specimen was found in deep water (about 50 m.). The spe- 
cimen was large, about 2 cm. high and occurred in a collection of 
various other alge which Dr. Mortensen most kindly sent me. 
Neomeris annulata seems to be rather common on the shores 
of the Danish West Indies. I have specimens from St. Thomas, 
the French wharf in the harbour at Charlotte Amalie, Bovoni 
lagoon; St. Jan, off Ramshead (leg. Dr. Mortensen) in a depth 
of about 50 m; St. Croix, Lime tree Bay. 
ll. Bornetelleae. 
Batophora J. Ag. 
Batophora Oerstedi J. Ag. 
J. Agardh, Nya algformer. Ofversigt af kungl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens 
Förhandlingar, Arg. 11, 1854, Nr. 4, p. 107. M.A. Howe, Phycological 
Studies, II. Bulletin Torr. bot. Club, Vol. 32, 1905, p. 578. Dasycladus 
occidentalis Harvey, Nereis bor. Americ. Part Ill, 1858, p. 38. Botryo- 
phora occidentalis (Harv.) J. Ag., Till Algernes System., 5. Afdeln., p. 141, 
1887. Coccocladus occidentalis Cramer, Ueber die verticillirten Siphoneen, 
Neue Denkschr. schweiz. naturf. Gesell. Bd. XXX, 1887, p. 37. Cocco- 
cladus occidentalis, laxus Howe, Bull. Torr. bot. Club, Vol. 31, 1904, p. 95. 
Exsice. Collins, Holden and Setchell, Phycotheca Boreali-Americana, 
Nr. 667. 
As Howe has pointed out (l.c. 1905, p. 579), J. Agardh most 
probably forgot his old description of this species from 1854 as in 
1887 when writing his paper on the Siphoneae he had this alga 
before him and then gave it the new name Botryophora. 
Of the original material collected by Ørsted at St. Croix 
several (7) specimens are to be found in the Botanical Museum of 
the University in Copenhagen; on the label which belong to them, 
Ørsted has written: “Bryopsis??? Ad radices Rhizophorae Mangle 
in sinu substagnante, Krauses lagoon, insul. St. Crucis” and above 
it on the same label J. Agardh has written: “Botryophora Oerstedi 
J. Ag. mser. Genus novum”. The fact that J. Agardh wrote on 
this certainly the original label Botryophora Oerstedi is rather remar- 
kable, as at the same time on the specimens he kept back in his 
own herbarium he has written as already pointed out by M. A. Howe 
„Batophora Oerstedi” and it is rather remarkable also, when he 
(I. c. 1887, p. 139) writes: “Antea quam suum Dasycladum oeci- 
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