212 KJELLMAN, THE ALG^ OF THE ABCTIC SEA. 



Gen. Haplospora Kjellm. 



Skand. Ect. ocli Tilopt. p. 3. 



Haplospora globosa Kjellm. 

 1. c. p. 5. 

 Descr. et Fig. Haplospora globosa Kjellm. 1. c. et t. 1, fig. 1. 



iSyn. Haplospora globosa Kjellm. Spetsb. Thall. 2, p. 9; Algenv. Murm. Meer. p. 29. 



Habitat. It grows sublitoral oii gravelly bottom in 5 — 10 fathoius on exposed or 

 sheltered coasts. The individuals occur scattered. In the Arctic Sea it bears spores 

 in July and at the beginning of August. 



Geo(.]r. Distrib. Found in the Greenland Sea and the eastern Murman Sea. It 

 is here more luxuriant than in the Atlantic. The northernmost locality where it has 

 been taken is Smeerenberg Bay on the north-west coast of Spitzbergen Lat. N. 79° 45'. 



Localities: The Greenland Sea: the vvest coast of Spitzbergen, local and scarce. 



The Murman Sea: the west coast of Novaya Zemlya and Waygats, local and scarce. 



Fam. LAMINARIACE^ (Ag.) Rostaf. 



iu GoBi, Ålgeiitl. Weiss. Meer. p. 74; Ag. Syst. Alg. p. XXXVI; lim. mut. 



Gen. Alaria Grev. 

 Alg. Brit. p. XXXIX. 



Alaria esculenta (L.) Gbev. 



1. c. p. 25. Fuciis esculentus L. Mänt. 1, p. 135. 



f. australis nob. 

 Descr. Alaria esculenta J. G. Ag. Grönl. Lam. och Fuc. p. 22. 

 Fig. Fuous esculentus Turn. Hist. Fuc. t. 117. 

 Exsicc. Alaria esculenta Aresch. Alg. Phyc. Scand. exsie. N:o 19. 



f. musoifolia De la Pyl. (nob.) 



Laminaria mussefolia De la Pyl. Fl. Terre neuve, p. 31. 

 Descr. Alaria mussefolia J. G. Ag. 1. c, p. 23; excl. syn. 



Fig. Laminaria esculenta var. platyphylla De la Pyl. Prod. Terre ueuve, t. 9, fig. D. 

 Syn. Alaria esculenta Aiiesch. Pliyo. Scand. p. 342. 



M » Kleen, Nordl. Alg. p. 32; ex parte. 



Fuous esculentus Wg. Fl. Lapp. p. 494. 



Remark on the species. I have at present comparatively very rich collections of 

 Alaria from northern Norway at my disposal. In these there are several specimens which 

 agree very well in all points with J. G. Agabdh's excellent description of Ä. esculenta 

 and with the ligure of Fucus esculentus given by Turner. Again, other specimens, which 



