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and D. siniiosa, Callithamnion arbiisciila, Fiircellaria fasiUjiata and 

 many others. In the course of winter, especially towards its end, 

 and during the first montlis of spring, the new lamina appears in 

 the periodically lamina-changing species of Laminariacece, e. g, La- 

 minaria dlgitata, L. hyperborea and L. saccharina, and the old laminae 

 are thrown olT during the months of spring, at which time huge 

 masses of the latter are washed ashore on the beach. 



As the vegetative period for several species is much prolonged in 

 Greenland, the same may be said though to a less extent of several 

 species on the Fseroese coasts, compared with what is the case on 

 our Danish coasts. Besides the above-mentioned annual alga?, which 

 live somewhat longer, as just stated, we may find, e. g. Desmarestia 

 aculeata with new shoots and densely covered with assimilating hairs 

 as late as June and July, whilst in Denmark it is often hairless al- 

 ready at this time of the year. Rhodomela lycopodioides likewise grows 

 for the greater part of summer on the Faeroese coasts, whilst Rhodo- 

 mela siibfiisca, which is closely related to the latter, stops developing 

 at the beginning of the summer on the Danish coasts. On the whole, 

 several algae which at a certain moment stop developing in our seas, 

 seem to be able to throw out shoots much later in the year on the 

 Faeroese coasts; but whether their vegetative period is really pro- 

 longed or wdiether it is due to the fact, that this period begins later 

 and thus likewise ends later than on the Danish coasts, I cannot 

 say as yet. The latter seems at any rate rather probable. 



As to the time of fructification , it sets in at very different pe- 

 riods of the year for the different species; in my paper on the Ma- 

 rine Algae of the Faeroes I have stated the time of fructification of 

 each species, so far as it is known. As a general rule it may be 

 stated, that the greater part of the Faeroese algae seem to fructify 

 during the summer season. 



Some species, however, have only been found with reproductive 

 organs at other times of the year; e. g. Delesseria sangiiinea, found 

 w^ith cystocarps and tetraspores during the last months of the year; 

 Halidrys siliqiiosa which is sterile in summer, but which had young 

 receptacles in October: Fiircellaria fasligiata of which I have seen 

 specimens wdth tetraspores in great quantities in November-Decem- 

 ber, whilst specimens with antheridia or cystocarps did not occur 

 in the material, as they are most probably developed during the 

 winter months, as on our own coasts. 



Some species begin to develop their organs of fructification in 



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