96 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Pacific, growing on Postelsia palmeformis, but bearing only pluri- 
locular sporangia. 
**Notes on two Lithothamnia from Funafuti,” by Dr. M. Foslie 
(Kgl. Norske Videnskab. Selskabs Skrifter, 1899, No. 2), is a short 
paper, the forerunner of a fuller account of calcareous algze from 
ing. One of t 
ar. funafutiensis of Lithothamnion Philippii Fosl., and the other is 
the Goniolithon oncodes Fosl., already recorded from New Guinea. 
Mr. Isaac Holden. publishes in Rhodora for November ‘“‘ Two new 
species of Marine Alge from Bridgeport, Conn.” They are Hydro- 
coleum majus and Stictyosiphon subsimplew, distributed in Phycotheca 
Boreali-Americana as No. 602 and 630 respectively. Both are figured. 
A ‘Note sur quelques Algues rapportées par le yacht Chazalie,” 
y eber van Bosse (Journal de Botanique, No. 5, Mai, 
1899), records Acetabularia Peniculus Solms from Bahia Honda, 
Chalmasia antillina Solms from Marisa, and describes a new 
species of Codium—C. Chalazei, from presses near Cape de Verde. 
The veteran phycologist Prof. J. G. Agardh has beans out a 
Continuatio V. to his Analecta peeteeag containing many new 
genera and species, mains from Australian and American shores. 
e gives a systematic disposition is Ligue which contains 
sixty-nine species, inalnain ng several new ones. Sarcomenia is also 
re at some 
secund ata 
ge otis 
AES and Spyridia on the one hand, and Furcellaria and 
Spongiocarpia on the other, The } si an of calcium carbonate 
in the obovate aetntines to the cortical filaments and the 
Miss Hussey, and is ee by Prof. Agardh as a simple form 0 
the type of Cystoseira 
nating filament into the host-plant through its various stages to 
maturity. The antheridia of Notheia are here Soiketbod for the first 
time, = they had evidently been recognized eas by Mr. 
. M. Ze 
author a ~~ randum of a note made, among 0 others on n Netheia, 
some years ago: ‘ sSeehpod eas paca mucilaginous material from 
the tip of the stem of Notheia: it contained oospheres and anthero- 
zoids of the ordinary fucaceous type.’’ The origin of the branches 
