DICKIE ON ALG/E FROM GREENLAND. ETC. 239 



XXIX. — Flowering Plants and Alg^ of Greenland, 

 Davis' Strait, and Baffin's Bay, collected by Dr. 

 P. C. Sutherland, and determined by Sir W. J. 

 Hooker and G. Dickie, M.D., Professor of Natural 

 History, Queen's College. Belfast. 1853. 



[From Commander E. A. Inglefield's " Summer Search (in 1852) 

 " for Sir John Franklin," &c. 8vo. London, 1853. Ap- 

 pendix, pp. 133-144.] 



I. — The Flowering Plants and a Febn, named by Sir W. J. 

 Hooker, have been incorporated in the foregoing List of 

 Arctic Plants by Dr. J. D. Hooker, C.B., Pres. R.S., &c. 

 {See pages 225-238.) 

 n. — The ALGiE, named by Dr. Dickie. 

 1. Melanospermese. 

 FucacecB. 



Fucus vesiculosus, L. Hunde Islands, 40-50 fathoms ; 



floating near Beechy Island (Barrow Strait) ; on the beach, 



Whale Sound. The specimens nearly all destitute of 



vesicles. 

 F. nodosus, L. Fiskernaes and Whale [Whale-fish ?] Island ; 



and floating in 70° 50' N. 

 Sporochnacece. 

 Desmarestia viridis. Lam. Hunde Ish, 50-100 fathoms. 

 D. aculeata, Lam. Fiskernaes ; Hunde Isl., 80-100 fathoms ; 



Whale Isl. ; floating in 73° 20' N. 

 Laminariacece. 



Alaria esculenta, Grev. [Pylaii ?]. On the beach, Whale 



Sound. Large ; some of the fronds upwards of 6 inches 



broad. 

 Laminaria fascia, Ag. Hunde Isl., 40-50 fathoms. 

 L. saccharina, Lam. Hunde Isl., 50-100 fathoms. 

 L. longicruris, De la Pyl. Melville Bay ; Whale Sound ; Cape 



Saumarez; floating off" Dark Head, Greenland (lat. 72° 15' 



N.), upwards of 10 feet in length, and their roots abounding 



with animal forms peculiar to deep water. 

 L. digitata. Lam. Whale Sound. 

 Agarum Turneri, Post. <fe Kupr. Hunde Isl,, 10-100 fathoms ; 



Whale Isl., 40-50 fathoms ; Melville Bay. 

 DictyotyacecB. 



Dictyota fasciola, Lam. Hunde Isl., 40-50 fathoms ; Whale 



Isl., 20-40 fathoms. 

 Dictyosiphon foeniculaceus, Grev. Hunde Isl., 50-70 fathoms ; 



and floating in lat. 73° 20' N. 

 Asperococcus Turneri, Hook. Fiskernaes. 

 Chordariacece. 

 Chordaria flagelliformis, Ag. Fiskernaes; Hunde Is., 40- 



100 fathoms ; Whale Isl. ; Melville Bay. 

 Elachista fucicola, Fries. Fiskernaes ; Whale Isl, 



