Carteria corallicola sp. nov. 



Stems 2-3.5 dm. tall, rather slender, fleshy: basal leaves 2-7 

 cm. long; blades nearly linear, narrowed at both ends, often 

 curved: spike of flowers rather inconspicuous, erect: lateral se- 

 pals linear-lanceolate to broadly linear, 6.5-7.5 rn"^- long, green 

 or greenish-yellow: petals linear or nearly so, yellowish-green or 

 greenish-white: lip oval to orbicular-oval, 6-7 mm. long, the 

 body yellowish, with the crests extending to the base of the 

 middle lobe, the lobes magenta, or magenta-pink at the tips: 

 anther magenta: mature fruit not seen. 



In pinelands, Everglade Keys, Florida. Also in the Bahamas. 

 Type collected about two miles northeast of the point where the 

 old trail crosses Long Prairie, October 31, 1906, J. K. Small, 

 J. J. Carter, A. A. Eaton. 



Carteria is related to Triphora, but differs in the position of 



the flowers, and the lip, as described above, and in the short 



column, the prominently 3-lobed stigma which is thick and 



spongy at the base, and the inconspicuous anther-connective. 



: J- K. Small 



REVIEWS 



Collins' The Qreen Algae of North America* 



American students of the fresh-water algae and of the marine 

 Chlorophyceae have welcomed the appearance of Collins' de- 

 scriptive work on the green algae of North America, which treat- 

 ise they have now been able to put to a practical test for about a 

 year. This dignified book of four hundred octavo pages and 

 eighteen plates begins with an Introduction, in which are dis- 

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 of this group of plants, and methods of collecting, preserving, 

 and studying the algae. The author has used the term "green 

 algae" in the broad familiar sense, instead of trying to make it 

 conterminous with the "Chlorophyceae" of most modern authors. 

 However, the Desmidiaceae are omitted as constituting a proper 

 specialty of their own on account of their numbers and peculiar 

 characters and the Characeae are left out owing to their slight 

 affinities with the green algae in the narrower sense. The class 

 Heterokontae, proposed by Luther in 1899 and adopted a little 



* Collins, Frank Shipley. The Green Algae of North America. Tufts College 

 Studies (Scientific Series) 2: 79-480. pi. 1-18. Jl 1909. 



