Contributlon.I. 



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dark olive brown. The flliform basal part of the thallomis 

 sometimes divided and bears two bandshaped branches. 



. The plant is litoral, living in pools in the lowér part 

 of the zone. It grows somewhat gregarious and occurs only 

 on open coast. The length of the plant is, as at Iceland, 

 generally 10 — 15 cm., but sometimes reaching about 45 cm. 

 Specimens with zoosporangia have been tåken in the middle 



of July. 



jDistribution: Found at Kiberg in the neighbourhood of 



Vardo, in 1882 local but abnndant, in 1889 appeared on the 

 same locality only a few small and rather stunted specimens. 



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Also found at Havningberg, very rare, and at Berlevaag, 

 local and scarce. 



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Fam. Scytosiplioneæ Thur 



in Le Jol. Liste Alg. Cherb. p. 14. 



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Gen. Phyllitis (Kiitz.) Le Jol. 



Liste Alg. Clierb. p. 68, Kiitz. Pliyc. gener. p. 342, lim. mut 



Phyllitis fascia (Miill.) Kiitz. 



L c. p. 343; Fucus fascia Miill. Fl. Dan. t. 768. 

 Beser. Lamiiiaria cæspitosa J. G. Ag. Spee. Alg. 1, p. 130. 



Phyllitis fascia Rke Ostseefl. p. 63. 

 Fig, Laminaria fascia llarv. Pliyc. Brit. t. 45. 



Phyllitis cæspitosa Bern. et Thur. Etud. Phycol. t. 4. 

 Phycolapathum cuneatum Kiitz. Tab. Phyc. 6, t. 49. 

 Bxsicc. Laminaria fascia Aresch. Alg. Scand. exaicc. Ed. 1, No. 36. 



^ „ Wyatt, Alg. Danm. No. 157. 



Phyllitis cæspitosa Le Jol. Alg. inar. Cherb. No. 154. 

 Bea fascia Aresch. Alg. Scand exsicc. No. 96; spee. thall. latiore. 



Syn. Ulva fascia Lyngb. Hydr. Dan. t. 119. 



Ilea fascia Aresch. Phyc. Scand. p. 353; exparte. 



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Kjellm. N. Ish. Algfl. p. 319; ex parte fide syn 



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This species is rather a pelagic plant, common and lux- 



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