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common red seaweeds of that region, but makes no specific 

 references to midwinter observations. 



The present notes have been suggested by several small collec- 

 tions of marine algae made at and near Orient, New York, by 

 Mr. Roy Latham during the month of February of the present 

 year, a February, by the way, that ranks among the coldest 

 ever recorded by the New York City station of the United 

 States Weather Bureau. Most of the specimens were found 

 washed ashore after heavy storms and may have been passing 

 the winter in the deeper waters, but there seems to be nothing 

 in the list to excite suspicions as to the actual local occurrence 

 of the species found. 



The four following species were found "near the shore of 

 Gardiner's Bay" on February 7: 



Scytosiphon lomentarius (Lyngb.) J. Ag. Plants 14-20 cm. 

 long with well-developed gametangia. 



Cystoclonium purpurascens (Huds.) Kiitz. Plant (or frag- 

 ment) about 10 cm. high and incipiently tetrasporic. Cysto- 

 clonium is annotated by Davis as a summer plant at Woods Hole. 



Agardhiella tenera (Ag.) J. Ag. A battered and weather-worn 

 fragment with immature or somewhat abnormally developed 

 tetrasporangia. Occurring with undoubted Cystoclonium pur- 

 purascens, the specimen might possibly be suspected of represent- 

 ing a coarse denuded condition of that species, but the mode 

 of branching and the larger cells of the inner cortex as well as 

 the stouter habit indicate that it belongs with Agardhiella tenera. 

 Lewis considers this a summer species at Woods Hole, but Davis 

 remarks of it, "summer, undoubtedly at other seasons." 



Ceramium rubrum (Huds.) Ag. Apparently sterile. 



The species of the list immediately following were found on the 

 shores of the Sound on February 14, just after a severe storm: 



Ulva Lactuca L. 



Desmarestia aculeata (L.) Lamour. The denuded autumn and 

 winter condition. 



Laminar ia Agardhii Kjellm. 



Laminaria digitata (L.) Lamour. 



Chondrus crispus (L.) Stackh. Tetrasporic. 



