138 MARINE ALGE OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 
a unless numbered plants were ete a either wrongly or 
at all, no number would be worth c 
ny may ada, for the guidance of tollaetsi, iat different collectors’ 
dn 
on one of them! On the other hand, Balansa 2 appears, W 
ad an opportunity, to have laid in a great quantity of one saat 
finely collected under the number. Such numbers are very valuable 
g where you are” in a large and critical genus in any 
herbarium. No doub bt collectors endeavour to ere both objects ; 
het he cores upon i 
A PROVISIONAL LIST OF THE MARINE ALGAE OF 
THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE 
By Eruex 8. Barron. 
(Continued from p. 114.) 
PHLEBOTHAMNION SQUARROSUM Kiitz. Cape, fide Kiitzing. 
zia. Frons nana, filis 
primariis repentibus, wi wedundastia tenuissimis, erectis, ramosis, ramis 
suboppositis siinipbibbisDtila ; Spherosporis termin : 
.b. Spei. Coll. H. A. Spencer. 
I have named this + Sgjeee after Dr. Schmitz, of me oe who 
CHANTRANSIA SECUNDATA Thar. On Laminaria, near Cage Town, 
Tyson ! 
Geogr. Distr, North Sea, Atlantic. 
CRYPTONEMIACE, 
Scuizymenia Erosa J. Ag. Simon’s Bay, Pappe. 
8. apopa J. Ag. Table Bay, Pappe. 
There is an exception to this which I have nid es met with so 1 hegameedy 
that it raitiat modity the above conclusion: viz., that new species are not rarely 
oun on a single specimen issued, say, as 8375 E. Scirpus lacustris Linn., 
and this number cited as the type of the e species. There is thus @ very possible 
ntage in citing the numbers of the ve commonest cies, even when 
issued correctly named. - fies 
