"274 KJELLMAX, THE ALG^ OF THE ARCTIC SEA. 



Localities : The Norwegian Polar Sea: Xordlanden common; Finmarken, local and 

 pretty scarce at Gjesvaer, the south coast of Magero, Oxfjord, and Talvik. 



Tlie Greenland Sea: common and abundant on the coasts of Spitzbergen. 



IVie Mui'inan Sea: the coast of Samoj^ede-land, Kolgujew Isle; the west coast of 

 Novaya Zemlya and ^Yaygats rather common, but not abundant. 



The White St a: rather rare. 



The Kara Sea: Uddebay pretty plentiful; Cape Palander and Actinia Bay scarce. 



The Siberian Sea: Irkaypi rather abundant and luxuriant; Koljutshin Isle, Pitlekay, 

 and the coast east of this point, rather common and not scarce. 



The American Arctic Sea: Western Eskimaux-land. 



Baffin Bay: Cumberland Sound; the west coast of Greenland at Nanortalik, Lich- 

 tonau, Kakortok, Smallesund, Holstenborg, Hunde Islands, Godhavn, Lat. N. 73° 20'; 

 Whale Island, Floeberg Beach. 



Gen. Sphacelaria (Lyxgb.) J. G. Ag. 



Spec. AJg. 1, p. 29; Lyngb. Hydr. Dan. p. 103; spec. excl. 



Sphacelaria cirrhosa (Roth) Ag. 



Syst. Alg. p. 164. Conferva cirrhosa Roth, Cat. Bot. 2, p. 214. 



Descr. Sphacelaria cirrhosa J. G. Ag. Spec. .^Ig, p. 1, 34. 



Fig. n » Harv. Phyc. Brit. t. 178. 



Ed-sicc. a « Aresch. Alg. Scand. exsicc. X:o 108 — 109. 



.y_yrt. Conferva pennata Wg. F1. Lapp. p. 512; es parte sec. herb. 

 Sphacelaria cirrhata Croall, F1. Disc. p. 458 (?). 

 « cirrhosa Dickie, Alg. Cumberl. p. 238. 



» » Kleen, Xordl. Alg. p. 36. 



» pennata Lyxgb. Hydr. Dan. p. 105 (?). 



Habitat. Either literal or sublitoral, attached to other algas or to stones, growing 

 scattered both on exposed and sheltered coasts. Kleex has collected it with zoospo- 

 rangia (and gametangia?) at Xordlanden in August. 



Geogr. Distrib. Known from the Norwegian Polar Sea and Baffin Bay. It is 

 uncertain, however, whether the Sphacelaria cirrhosa reported from the west coast of 

 Greenland is really the present species and not Sph. arctica. Its maximum of frequency 

 is at Nordlanden, this being also the most northern place where it occurs. 



Localities: The Norwegian Polar Sea: Nordlanden common. 



Bajfin Bag: Cumberland Sound; the coast of Greenland according to Croall and 

 Lyxgbye 1. c. 



Sphacelaria arctica Harv. 



sec. J. G. Ag. Gronl. Alg. p. 110; Cfr. Dickie, Alg. Curaberl. p. 238. 

 Descr. at Fig. Sphacelaria arctica K.iellm. Spetsb. Thall. 2, p. 34 et t. 2, fig. 4 — G. 



