Contribution. I. '1/3 



ther with Delesseria and PHlota. All the specimens I have 

 collected myself in the summer have been sterile. However 

 K j e 1 lm an has at West-Finmarken, at the end of August, met 

 with specimens with the beginnings of sporocarps. At Lo- 

 dingen in Nordland I have found specimens with tetraspores 

 in December and with sporocarps in February. 



Distribution : Commonly spread along the whole coasts 

 never in considerable numbers, and enters almost to the 

 end of the greater bays. 



Gen. Rhodomela (Ag.) J. G. Ag. 

 Spec. Alg. 2, p. 874 ; Ag. Spec. Alg, 1, p. 368 ; ex parte. 



Rhodomela lycopodioides (L.) Ag. 

 1. c. p. 377; Fucus lycopodioides L. Syst. Nat. 2, p. 717. 



f. typica. 



a compacta Kjellm. 

 N. Ish. Algfl. p. 139. 

 Descr. Rhodomela lycopodioides J. G. Ag. Spec. Alg. 2, p. 885. 

 - Fig. „ „ Harv. Phyc. Brit. t. 50. 



Exsicc. „ „ Aresch. Alg. Scand. exsicc. Nr. 3. 



(S laxa Kjellm. 

 1. c. p. 140. 



Descr. Rhodomela lycopodioides f. typica /? laxa Kjellm. 1. c. 



Fig. v „ » „ „ 1. c. t. 9, fig 1. 



Y tenera Kjellm. 



1. c. p. 140. 

 Descr. Rhodomela lycopodioides f. typica y tenera Kjellm. 1. c. 

 Fig. „ „ „ „ „ 1. c.t.9, fig 2. 



f. cladostepJms J. G. Ag. (Kjellm.) 



Spetsb. Thall. 1, p, 8; Rhodomela cladostephus J. Gk Ag. Spetsb. 

 Alg. Till. p. 48. 



a densa Kjellm. 



L c. p. 140. 



