NEW OR CRITICAL BRITISH MARINE ALG 8738 
the Scilly Islands, where he was spending his summer holiday. 
Except in size, they agree well with Kiitzing’s figures and de- 
scription of Phycolapathum crispatum, an imperfectly ae species 
which seems to me identical with P. laminarioides Crn., described 
twenty-four Sie ars lat This species must not be confounded with 
the form of P latifolia which Mr. Holmes and I have called var. 
laminarioides (Holme & Batters in Annals of Botany, vol. v. p. 523), 
specimens of which ier sometimes 18 in. long and 6 in. wide, but 
which are with difficulty distinguished from the superficial cells, 
render P. crispata readily distin joisiabls from P. latifolia. 
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since found it on several occasions at Cumbrae. It makes 
appearance wr in spring, and by the end of April ies entirely 
disappeared. e Cumbrae specimens agree well with the speci 
mens a iaiiated in Hauck & Richter’s See ie universalis, 
no. 12, and with the excellent figures given by Rosenvinge. The 
plant when fresh 3 is of a ae brown colour, but fe very apt to 
turn green when drie 
Ru ae aoe BanGIAcEz. 
28. Neevea, gen. nov. Thallus prin endozoic, fila- 
mentous, proauss bent scan in the substance of Flustra foliacea, 
mutual pressure. Eepnanecon effected by the escape of the cells 
from the pe oe ig sheath, and their subsequent development into 
new individua. 
N. repe a oni i unica. Fronds from :25-1°5 mm. in diameter ; 
filaments from 12-36 p in breadth, in some parts aecLae but a 
single row of cells, in others 2-8 rows; cells 6-15 p long, 4-9 p 
broad. Tab. 414, figs. 18-22. Endozoie in Flustra tithe Deal; 
J. T. Neeve. 
In the spring of the present year Mr. John T. Neeve found on 
the shore at Deal some specimens of Flustra foltacea with hardly 
