Erythrophyllimi Gmelini (Grun.), Nov. Nom. 



By 

 Kichisaburo Tend 6. 



In 1870, Grunow 1 ' proposed a new specific name, Kallymenia 

 Gmelini, for a specimen collected in the Kurile Islands and kept 

 in the Botanical Museum of Berlin. He regarded the speci- 

 men to belong to the species what Gmelin has illustrated in 

 Hist. Fucorum, PI. XXIII. In explaining the plate, Gmelin 

 simply writes "Fucum Palmettam insigni magnitudine sistet " 

 and nothing further seems to be stated in the work. Grunow 

 assumed that the plant illustrated by Gmelin should have been 

 probably from the North Pacific as many others in the work 

 are so. This assumption might be admissible as we find Gmelin "' 

 mentions "littora Oceani septentrionalis et maris mediterranei" 

 as the locality of Fucus palmetta. It is, however, to be noted 

 here that in the North Pacific there are at least two known 

 species of Florideae which may be equally referred to the 

 figure given by Gmelin in the above cited work. The one is 

 the mentioned species Kallymenia Gmelini Grun. and the other 

 is Xitophyllum Ruprechtianum J. Ag. As the illustration is 

 rough and no description in detail is given for it, the referrence 

 as done by Grunow can hardly be readily approved. 



De Toni 3 ' first expressed a question on Gmelin's plant and 

 he stated "mihi videtur cum Phyllophora nervosa potissimus 

 congruens." But he 4) afterward mentioned the plant under Ery- 



1 ' Eeise der Xovara, Algae, p. 72, foot-note. 



2) Hist. Fucorum, p. 183. 



3) Syll. Alg. IV, p. 305. 



4) Ditto, p. 1640. 



