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[Extract from Bulletin No. 3 of the Santa Barbara Society of 

 Natural History, 1901. ] 



The Marine Algae of Santa Barbara 

 County, California* 



BY LORENZO GORDIN YATES, F. L. S., COR. MEMB. TORREY 

 BOT. CLUB OF NEW YORK, ETC. 



Our "Sea Mosses" have been a subject of interest to a 

 great many people especially to new comers and visitors; 

 many of whom may have lived in localities near the sea 

 coast, where the sea mosses are more abundant, and nearly 

 as beautiful as with us, but, on account of their time having- 

 been otherwise occupied, they have paid no attention to 

 the beautiful marine plants of their own locality, and it is 

 only when they have acquired a competency and start out 

 on their travels, that they have their attention called to 

 the interesting- plants of "Old Ocean" and admire their 

 beauty. 



For many years some of the people of our city were en- 

 thusiastic collectors and students of our Alg-ae; among- them 

 were the late Dr. Dimmick and Professor H. C. Ford who 

 made extensive collections, a larg-e portion of which became 

 the property of our Society of Natural History. 



Mrs. Bing-ham; Miss Lennebecker; Mrs. Ellwood 

 Cooper and other ladies, were also enthusiastic on the 

 subject; these were all members of this Society. 



Something- over twenty years ag-o Dr. Dimmick had a 



list of the then known Alg-ae of this reg-ion printed for use 



as labels, of which the majority of the names were correct. 



Some of the species were incorrectly credited to us, or 



named from their resemblance to species found on the 



