No. 3. The Marine Algae of Santa Barbara County. 7 



CLASS III. MELANOPHYCE^E. (Brown Algae). 



G. 



Order PH^OSPORE^. ZOOSPORE^. 



Phyllites fascia, Kutz. On rocks, not common. 



=Laminaria fascia. Ag. 

 Scytosiphon lomentarius, Ag. On rocks. 



— Chorda lomentaria, Lyngb. 



= Chorda jikim, var. lomentaria, Kutz. 



Found nearly all over the world. Fronds gregarious, 



three to eighteen inches long, attached by a disk-like 



base, shortly stipitate, expanding into a hollow tube, 



from a quarter of an inch to an inch in diameter, at 



first cylindrical, afterwards constricted at intervals. 

 Desmarestia ligulata, Lmx. On rocks. 

 Desmarestia ligulata, var. herbacea. 

 Spaceolaria fusca, Ag. On Amphiroa. 

 Leibmannia Leveillei, Ag. 

 Chordaria abietina, Riifir. 

 Asperococcus sinuosus, Bory. 

 Agarum Turneri, Post, and Rapr. "Sea Colender." Rare 



in this locality; probably drifted from a distance north. 



=Agarum fimbriatum, Harv. (?) 



=Fusns pertusus, Mertens. (Agardh.) 

 Laminaria Sinclairii, Farl and Eaton. "Devil's Apron." 



Fronds attached by a branching base, stipes expanding 



into a ribless entire or laciniate lamina. 



H. 



Order FUCACE^. OOSPORES. (Sea Weed.) 



Fucus fastigiatus, Ag. All the Marine Algae were form- 

 erly included under the name of Fucus. 



Fucus furcatus, Ag. 



Fucus Harveyanus; Decn. Common. 



Sargassum Agardianum, Farlow. "Gulf Weed." The 

 most highly organized and by far the largest genus of 



