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No. 2. 



MARINE ALGAL OF THE NEW JERSEY COAST AND 



ADJACENT WATERS OF STATEN ISLAND. 



By Isaac C. Martindale, Camden, N. J. 



(Read June ii, 1889). 



The issue of Harvey's '' Nereis Boreali Americana" in 1852- 

 1857 t>y the Smithsonian Institute at Washington, was the first 

 pubHcation bearing on the marine algae of the New Jersey coast ; 

 this does not show that collections were made much south of 

 Long Branch. The fact was doubtless that up to that date v^ery 

 few persons indeed had collected on the more southern shores of 

 the State. Samuel Ashmead, living at Beesley's Point, had during 

 previous years made some study of the marine flora in his im- 

 mediate vicinity, and there was published in the Report of '* The 

 Geology of the County of Cape May/' issued in 1857, ''A Cata- 



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logue of Marine Algae discovered at Beesley's Point during the 

 summer of 1855, by Samuel Ashmead, Esq." enumerating 29 

 species. Prof W. G. Farlow issued in 1871-1872 a ** List of the 

 sea weeds or Marine Algac of the south coast of New England." 

 In 1875-1876 he also issued lists of the ''Marine Algae of the 

 United States." In the Report of the U. S. Fish Commission for 

 1879, was issued ** Marine Algae of Nevv England and adjacent 

 coast/' by Prof Farlow ; which is the best pubhcation bearing 

 directly on the marine flora of the New Jersey coast 



In the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, July, 1886, 

 -Col Nicholas Pike of Brooklyn published a " Check List of 

 Marine Algae, based on specimens collected on the shores of 

 Long Island from 1839 to 1885/' From time to time notes on 



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