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Pictou and the delivery at the Garden, the material arrived in 
good condition. The antheridia had exuded copiously, forming 
yellowish waxy masses about the mouths of the cavities in which 
they were borne, and when they were transferred to sea-water 
great numbers of vigorous spermatozoids were set free. The 
egg-bearing individuals, though less numerous, were in equally 
good condition, On May 16th some of the plants were set out 
at four stations in Pelham Bay and on Hunters Island, these 
places being on Long Island Sound and within the present limits 
of New York City. At the date of writing (June 3d) the plants 
are living and appear moderately healthy. Even if these plants 
soon die the possibilities of their being responsible for the appear- 
ance of the species in some more or less remote part of the 
adjacent coast seem sufficient to justify a printed record of the 
present attempt. 
Fucus serratus L. is a strikingly distinct species of “ rockweed ” 
with an interesting geographical distribution. De-Toni in his 
Sylloge Algarum (3: 208. 1895) states that it is found on the 
shores of Europe from Norway and Scotland to Spain, in the 
Baltic Sea and the Arctic Ocean, and that it has been reported 
also from the Cape of Good Hope; its occurrence in America is 
alluded to in a parenthesis followed by an interrogation mark. 
Harvey in the Supplement of his classical Nereis Boreali-Amer- 
icana, published in 1858, includes a short description of the species 
followed by ‘Newburyport, Mass., Captain Pike, 1852.’ He 
adds : “I have received a small fragment of this common Euro- 
pean plant, stated to have been found in the above locality on 
the American coast. It is hardly probable that it is either con- 
fined to one locality or even rare, wherever it occurs; yet none 
of my other American correspondents have sent it; nor do I 
know the circumstances under which Captain Pike obtained it. 
I hope this notice may lead some one on the coast to investigate 
the subject ; for European botanists are yet uncertain whether 
serratus be really a bona fide native of the American coast or 
merely a stray waif, accidentally cast ashore.”’ In 1881, Pro- 
fessor Farlow, in his Marine Algae of New England, attributed 
the species to ‘‘ Newburyport, Mass., Captain Fike,” apparently 
