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Oscillatoria, Phormidium, Anabcena, 

 Pithophora and Cladophora flourished 

 here. While collecting in such places 

 we were always surrounded by a crowd 

 of onlookers, of various colors and 

 degrees of intelligence. It was Miss 

 Crosby's self-appointed task to interest 

 these visitors and keep them from 

 4 ' bothering. 1 ' In her explanations of 

 various things she often got her hearers 

 wild with enthusiasm, and she learned 

 to speak "pigeon-English.' 1 The Ha- 

 waiian name for algae was ' ' limu, " and we 

 were therefore called the "limu ladies." 

 Sometimes we would all three of us 

 go off for a stay of several days at a 

 more distant place. We spent four 

 days at Waikiki beach, where numerous 

 new marine forms were picked up from 

 the "wash." Both here and at Waianae 

 we had many opportunities of seeing 

 surf-riding, by native men and boys. 



