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(Bishop Agardh), has long been illustrious ; and I did this with all the more 

 readiness, as neither in Dr. J. D. Hooker's Handbook on New Zealand plants, 

 nor in my little work on the Vegetation of the Chatham Islands, specific notes 

 on any of the Algce of that group are contained. Furthermore, I hope to 

 encourage renewed and extended enquiries in this direction, by drawing atten- 

 tion to the fact, that one-third of the few A IgcB hitherto collected in the Chatham 

 group, augment actually the long list of species already discovered at the main 

 islands of New Zealand. It seems thus evident, that any methodic search 

 after such plants, throughout all seasons, will be rewarded with many new 

 disclosures of this poi'tion of the oceanic vegetation. 



The species hitherto unrecorded from any part of New Zealand, and mostly 

 new to science, are Ilymenocladia lanceolata, Landshoroughia myricifolia, 

 Cystophora scalaris, C. dissecta, A mjjhiroa Wardii, Palyripha nia Ifuelleriana. 

 The first of these plants introduces even a new genus into the vegetation of New 

 Zealand, of which latter that of the Chatham Islands must be regarded as a 

 mere ofishoot. The species are ari-anged according to Harvey's Index Generum 

 Algarum, which that lamented great observer promulgated in 1860. Omitted 

 from the list is Conferva Darwinii, to which plant I have already referred in 

 the preface to the Vegetation of the CJiatham Islands. 



F. V. M. 



Melbourne Bot. Gardens, 



September, 1870. 



1. Carpophyllum phyllanthus, J. Hook, et Harv., in London Journ. of Bot, 



iv., 526. Travers' Coll., 112. 



2. Landshoroughia myricifolia, J. Agardh. Travers' Coll., llO. I have 



ventured to write the generic name in congruity with that of the Rev. 

 Dr. Landsborough (the father of the Australian explorer), to whom the 

 genus was dedicated, although the late Prof. Harvey, for the sake of 

 brevity, called it Landsburgia. Thoiigh such changes have been adopted 

 in many other cases (for instance, in the dedication of the genus Goodenia, 

 by Sir James Smith, to Bishop Goodenough), it is evident that such 

 alterations in the name deprive the dedication of all real meaning. If 

 such change is adopted for distinction between a zoologic and phytologic 

 genus, it would appear far better to abandon one of the two altogether. 



3. Cystophora scalaris, J. Agardh. Travel's' Coll., 108. 



4. „ dissecta, J. Agardh. Travers' Coll., 109. 



5. Ecklonia radiata, J. Agardh. Spec. Gen. et Ord. Alga;, i., 146. Travers' 



Coll., 105. 



6. Zonaria Turneriana, J. Ag. (Z. interrupta, Ag. S])., i., 137.) Travers' 



Coll., 100. 



