Myxophyceae up 



i: 187. 1903. Collins, Holden and Setchell. Phyc. Bor.-Am. Fasc. 22. no. 

 1059. 1903. Lemmermann. Algenfl. Sandwich.-Inseln. Bot. Jahrb. 34: 620. 

 1905. Collins. Notes on Algae.— VII. Rhodora. 8: 123. 1906. Collins, 

 Holden and Setchell. Phyc. Bor.-Am. Fasc. 30. no. 1452. 1908. Collins. 

 Notes on Algae. IX. Rhodora. 10: 162. 1908. 



Plate V. fig. 38. 



Plant mass rarely beyond 3 cm. in height, caespitose, extensive, mucous, 

 usually dull yellowish green or dark green, becoming dark violet when dried; 

 filaments ascending from a decumbent and tangled base, soft, flexuous; 

 sheaths up to 3 mic. in thickness, colorless, somewhat mucous, lamellose 

 v>rith age; trichomes 5-12 mic. in diameter, not constricted at joints; apex 

 of trichome slightly tapering, capitate; apical cell showing a depressed 

 conical or rotund calyptra; cells 2-3 mic. in length; transverse walls fre- 

 quentlv granulated. 



Maine. Growing in a rock'pool reached only by the highest tides. Cape 

 Rosier. July i8go; shore near Seal Harbor; in salt water pools. Ragged 

 Island, near Cape Elizabeth. (Collins). New Hampshire. (Collins). 



Massachusetts. Wood's Holl. (Farlow). Mystic River salt marshes.. (Col- 

 1ms). Falmouth. (Nott). Forming light yellow expansions on sandy shore 

 at low water mark. Little Harbor, Wood's Hole. August 1894. (Setchell). 

 Rhode Island. (Bennett, Collins). Connecticut. Growing in large patches 

 on stones and woodwork between tidemarks. Stonington. (Bailey). Noank. 

 (Farlow). New York. Shores of Long Island, Coney Island Creek. Sum- 

 mer. (Pike). New Jersey. Hudson, Hoboken. (Pike). On wharves be- 

 tween tide marks. Atlantic City. (Martindale). Nebraska. In pond. South 

 Bend. (Bessey). Washington. Salt marsh. Whidbey Island. (Gardner). 

 California. Pacific Beach. (Snyder). Mexico. Near Vera Cruz. (Muller). 

 West Indies. Guadeloupe. (Maze). Hawaii. Attached to rocks in tide 

 pool filled at high tide. Waianae, Oahu. May 1900. (Tilden). On marine 

 algae. Laysan. (Schauinsland). 



233. Lyngbya confervoides C. Agardh. Syst. Algar. 73. 1824. Gomont. Mon- 

 ogr. Oscill. 156. pi. 3. f. S, 6. 1893. De Toni. Syll. Algar. 5: 271. 

 1907. 



Harvey. Nereis Boreali-Americana. Part III. 102. pi. 47. c. 1858. (L. 

 nigrescens Harv.). Schramm and Maze. Essai Class. Algues Guade- 

 loupe. 31, 81. 1865. (Leibleinia littoralis Crouan, L. c a e r u 1 e o- 

 violacea Crouan). Maze and Schramm. Essai Class. Algues Guade- 

 loupe. 21, 23, 26, 28, 30. 1870-1877. (L. c a e r u 1 e o-v i o 1 a c e a Crouan, L. 

 littoralis Crouan, Lyngbya cyanea Crouan, L. rufescens 

 Crouan, L. r u b r o-v i o I a c e a forma crassior Crouan). Farlow. 



list of Marine Algae U. S. Proc. Am. Acad. Arts Sci. 10: 380. 1875; Marine 

 Algae of New England. 35. 1881. (L. 1 u t e o - f u s c a Ag.). Farlow, Ander- 

 son and Eaton. Algae Am. Bor-Exsicc. no. 48. 1876. Pike. Check List of 

 Marine Algae. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club. 13: 105. 1886. Martindale. Marine 

 Algae of the New Jersey Coast and Adjacent Waters of Staten Island. 

 Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, i: 91. 1889. Murray. Catalogue of the Marine 

 Algae of the West Indian Region. Journ. of Bot. 27: 261. 1889. (L. cyanea 



