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379. Fontinalis Neo-Mexicana Colunibica Card.— Plants quite soft, 

 lax, generally shining, bright or yellowish green: stems often red at base: 

 leaves distant, spreading, imbricate at end of stem and branches, some- 

 times slightly flexuose when dry. Monog. deaFontin., 1. c, 61. — British 

 Columbia; Washington; Idaho; California. 



380. Fontinalis maritima 0. MilU. — Plants slightly rigid, yellowish 

 green: stems elongated, naked at base; branches numerous, sometimes 

 fasciculate, rigid, delicate, elongated, flexuose, erect, triangular cuspidate: 

 leaves small, crowded, imbricate for the whole length of stem and branches, 

 oval-lanceolate, acuminate, acute, entire, carinate-conduplicate, nearly 

 straight; cells as in F. Neo-Mexicana, very narrow and elongated, walls 

 rigid and slightly thickened; cells of the angles numerous, sub-hexagonal, 

 yellowish or sub-hyaline: frutification unknown. Monog. des Fontin., 1. c, 

 61. — Growing with Polysiphonia and other marine algae, Neah Bay, 

 Washington. 



381. Fontinalis Kindbergii Ren. & Card.— Plants robust, soft, brown- 

 ish, or sometimes yellowish or red, copper colored and shining above: stem 

 generally more than a foot long, flexuose, naked and black at base, divided 

 into many more or less pinnate branches; branches spreading or erect, a 

 little flexuose, plumose, sometimes cuspidate: leaves dimorphous; stem 

 leaves erect-spreading or loosely imbricate, more or less carinate or only 

 plicate, broad oval-lanceolate, long narrow acuminate, cuspidate, entire or 

 sub-denticulate at summit, concave, upper large, lower much smaller and 

 shorter acuminate; branch leaves tristichous, divaricate, narrowly lanceo- 

 late, long acuminate, concave, inflexed on margins, canaliculate above, 

 rounded or sub-carinate at back; cells long linear, at angles enlarged, sub- 

 quadrate, yellowish or ferruginous; perichastial bracts convolute, suborbiou- 

 lar, entire at truncate-rounded apex: capsule immersed, oblong, lid conic; 

 teeth narrowly linear, slightly papillose, often connected in pairs at apex, 

 with 25-35 lamellae, not perforated at dorsal line; lattice cone of endostome 

 perfect, papillose, transverse bars appendiculate: dioicous. Bot. Gaz. 15: 

 58. 1890. — In streams, lakes, and ponds: Vancouver Island; Oregon; Wash- 

 ington; Idaho. 



382. Fontiaalis Kinilbergii Howellii Ren. & Card.— Stems rigid, sub- 

 dendroid: regular pinnate, spreading, often recurved and plumose, leaves 

 more rigid, dimorphism much more pronounced. F. Howellii, Bot. Gaz. 

 13: 200. 1888.— Oregon and Washington. 



383. Fontinalis chrysophylla Card. — Plants rigid, shining, golden yel- 

 low above, brown at base: stems delicate, naked below, irregularly pinnate; 

 branches distant, spreading, plumose, sub-attenuate: leaves scattered, 

 rigid, spreading or erect spreading, slightly dimorphous; stem leaves nar- 

 row lanceolate, concave, carinate-conduplicate, narrow acuminate, obtuse 

 or sub-obtuse, entire or slightly denticulate at summit; branch leaves and 



