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roundings very similar to those in which I found it some years 

 ago in Bermuda.* On the long outer beach of the Palisadoes— 

 the low, brush-grown, cactus-covered reef and sandbar which 

 forms the harbor's seawall — several rather uncommon deep- 

 s Dictyurvs and Haloplegma, were picked 



siderable qu: 



tity. 



: the 



covered reefs lying in the open Caribbean from one to five c 

 miles outside the harbor afford the most interesting colle. 

 grounds for marine algae in the Kingston region. Of speci; 



the forms of the lime-coated Galaxauras, several species o 



collected in Jamaica—, and the very luxuriant display of Cau 

 clavifera and of the related but evidently quite distinct Can 

 racemosa (C. uvifera). Caulerpa clavifera formed exte 

 handsome mats on coral reefs mostly from the low-water 

 down to a depth of only one or two feet ; C. racemosa grc 

 slightly deeper water and in somewhat more protected pi 

 yet the two were often found intermingled and retaining theii 

 :ctly. I hac 



:ely 



of thes 



species {for,, 





Indian islands, but nowhere 

 : I observed the two in such luxuriance and perfection of 

 nent. It may be remarked here that the tides at Kings- 

 so light (usually with a range of one foot or less) that 

 be ignored in the practical work of collecting. A smooth 

 icially if one 



.ch gre 



mport; 



e tha: 



In De- 



south shore of Jamaica the sea 

 monly calm during the morning hours and indeed up t< 

 or twelve o'clock, by which time the daily breeze has 1 

 surface more or less rough. I therefore planned to ir 

 collections in the morning and forenoon and to arrange 

 pare the' specimens in the afternoon. On only two or th 

 of my nearly three weeks' stay in Kingston was the se 

 ently boisterous to make venturing outside the Palisad 



