800 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
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unlikely) that it may have survived there from preglacial times. 
This is a tall plant (sixteen to twenty-eight inches), usually simple, 
sometimes slightly branched; the branches short, obliquely ascend- 
ing. Cauline leaves elongate-lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, 
with acute, rather speading teeth. Calyx covered, especially on the 
upper surface, with minute, one-celled, eglandular hairs. Corolla 
very small (8-9 mm.), 
THE MARINE ALG OF THE SHETLANDS. 
By F. Bércrsen (Copenhagen), 
Our present knowledge of the Algal vegetation of the Shetlands 
sligh In hi 
Flora of Shetland (1845) 
Edmondston gives a list of the alge found by him, but 
for a long time been wishing to visit the islands to inves- 
tigate the algal vegetation for the purpose of comparing it with 
at of the Ferdées, which I have been studying during the last 
years,* and last summer I was fortunate enough to visit the islands 
As may have been anticipated, the algal vegetation of these two 
archipelagos was very similar; but as I only made a very short 
a a ar miners sieEE co emma gee ee ee EE 
marr “The Marine Algw of the Frrdes,” in the Botany of the Farves, 
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