£22 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [FEBRUARY 
Schizophyceae 
CHROOCOCCACEAE 
Chroococcus turgidus (Kuetz.) Naegeli—In shallow stagnant 
pools; collected on the slopes‘of Mauna Kea, Hawaii. 
C. macrococcus (Kuetz.) Rabenh.—In shallow stagnant pools; 
collected on the slopes of Mauna Kea, Hawaii. 
Gloeocapsa polydermatica Kuetz.—Plant colony gelatinous and 
slimy; dull green or dusky olive, often very dark; on wet cliffs and 
rock surfaces; from sea level up through the rain forests. 
G. quarternata (Breb.) Kuetz.—Forms a gray-green or light olive 
mucilaginous coating on wet clifis; abundant in the humid zones, 
especially near waterfalls. 
G. magma (Breb.) Kuetz.—Forms a grumous, crustaceous, 
coppery purple mass on wet stones, in and along mountain streams, 
mostly between 1000 and 6000 ft. 
G. thermalis Lemm.—Colonies mucous, hyaline or dark purple; 
characteristic of warm pools on Hawaii, especially in the Puna 
district. 
Chondrocystis Schauinslandit Lemm.—Colony cushion shaped, 
widely expanded, up to 35 cm. high, cartilaginous, soft and fragile, 
incrusted with lime at the base; recorded only from the Laysan 
Island lagoon. 
Gloeothece fuscolutea Naegeli.—Colonies soft, gelatinous, bright 
blue-green, often covering the surface of the water in the lowland 
rice fields and among taro patches (loi). 
A phanothece Naegeli Wartmann.—Colonies gelatinous, forming 
small, soft, olive-brown lumps along the margins of waterfalls, 
among mosses, liverworts, etc., in the rain forests and on wet 
cliffs. 
A. prasina A. Braun.—Colonies soft, gelatinous, more or less 
globular; bright emerald green; forming free swimming, tubercu- 
lose, globose, or flattened masses; floating in brackish water in 
stagnant pools, rice patches, and similar situations. 
Gomphosphaeria aponina Kuetz.—Colonies spherical, mucous, 
solid, and free swimming; collected among marine algae at Laysan 
Island. 
