306 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Specimens quite like my specimens from the Farées determined by 
Foslie were found on the stem of Laminaria hyperborea, at a depth 
of about six fathoms, at Lerwick. 
Phymatolithon polymorphum (.) Fosl. Muckle Holm. 
Corallina officinalis L.—Muckle Holm. Lerwick. 
THE BOTANY OF SIAM. 
By FREpERIC N. Wiis, F.L.S. 
collector. European herbaria, which are so frequently enriched 
with parcels of plants from distant lands sent home by diplomatic 
agents, military men, missionaries, who find relaxation m 
scientific pursuits, are but little indebted to these often assiduous 
of the peninsula; and (2) The Flora of Koh Chang, investigated by 
the Danish Scientific Expedition of 1899-1900, and now being 
written up in the pages of the Botanisk Tidsskrift of Kopenhagen, 
from May, 1901, to November, 1902, by Mr. J. Schmidt, with 
several co-workers. This is an island in the Gulf of Siam, of some 
er 
among the Shan tribes, much of their territory can no longer 
considered an integral part of Siam, and the northern limit of the 
kingdom is lowered further in the direction of the equator. 
the furthest point reaches 
R. Mekong, Separating Siam from the Lao Province of-Hroth 
Indo-China, along its southward course to the northern limits 
- _ Cambodia, on which side the ng. 106° E. 
~The material for le country extends to long. : 
erial for erating the plants of Siam available in 
