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primaeviim which Newberry originally described as Leguminosites 

 Marcouanus. 



Explanation of Figures 

 Fig. I, basil ar-lobed leaf of Liriodendron Ttdipifera L. ; Fig. 2, flower and leaf 

 of Michelia fuscata (Andr. ) Hance (from Prantl, after Baillon) ; Fig. 3, anomalous 

 leaf of Magnolia Virginiana L. ; Fig. 4, fossil Li7'iodendrott stipules (after Heer). 

 Passaic, N. J., 

 August 5, 1903. 



THE DISTRIBUTION OF FUCUS SERRATUS 

 IN AMERICA 



By C. B. Robinson 



The serrated rockweed, Fiicus serratus L,, has long been 

 known to occur in abundance at Pictou, Nova Scotia, where it 

 was first collected by Professor Fowler. Outside of this general 

 locality it has never been found growing in America (if we ex- 

 cept a very doubtful report from Newburyport, Mass.), and until 

 lately its distribution was thought to be local, only two addi- 

 tional stations being recorded, Pirate Harbor, on the Strait of 

 Canso, by Professor Macoun, and Pictou Island by Dr. A. H. 

 Mackay. 



Specimens brought from Broad Cove, Inverness, last summer, 

 by Miss E. J. Fraser, extended the range some sixty miles to 

 the northeast of the Strait, along the western side of Cape Breton, 

 while others gathered at Pugwash early this spring by R. M. 

 Benvie, removed the other boundary a like distance to the west 

 of Pictou along the southern shores of Northumberland Strait. 



These finds caused a systematic search to be undertaken along 

 the entire coast of the Maritime Provinces, almost every impor- 

 tant point upon the Gulf being explored, and in several cases the 

 shores followed on foot for considerable distances. Much addi- 

 tional information has been obtained, which may be summarized 

 as follows : 



Although this rockweed is very common in all parts of Pug- 

 wash Harbor, no one has yet been able to find it farther west, 



