March, wis.] x. YENDO.— NOTES ON ALGAE NEW TO JAPAN. VI. 95 



careful study on them with a good number of specimens may 

 very likelj" prove that the describer has put too much stress to 

 the shape of the base of frond and to the locality of the plants. 



Locality. Hakodate(I). 



Distribution. Xew Zealand. 



Remark. In No II. 1} of the present Notes I have reported 

 the occurrence of Ascothamnion intricatum Kutz. in Japan. 

 Having no knowledge about its living state I have heeded noth- 

 ing that it should be an animal. This summer while botaniz- 

 ing on Koshiki Island off west coast of Kiushu, I have collected 

 its living specimen and actually observed the ciliated eight ten- 

 tacles protruding from and contracting into the cup-shaped 

 zooecia. It has been already reduced to a synotryrne of Zoo- 

 botryum pellueidum Ehrenb. 



Sapporo, 15, December, 191(>. 



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