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Taenioma /. Ag. 



Taenioma perpimllum, J. Ag. Sp. Ill, p. 1257.— Heydr. Ost-Asien, 

 p. 295. 



Hitherto known from : The Cape ; Naple ; the Atlantic Ocean ; 

 Mexico; Tonga Tabu ; West- Australia ; North Mollucca 

 Island. 



Remarks: Our plants carry young stichidia with no tetraspore. 

 They carry two long hairs, consisting of elongated cells. The habit is, as 

 Heydrich remarks, like a creeping Polysiphonia and the external ap- 

 pearance of stichidia is somewhat like Delesseria Leprieurii. 



Bonnemaisoniaceae. 

 Asparagopsis Mont. 

 Asparagopsis Sanfordiana, Harv. Phyc. Aust. pi. VI— J. Ag. Sp. III. 

 p. 666. 



Hitherto known from : Western Australia. 

 Remarks: Our plants are smaller than the Australian plants, the 

 argest specimens being 15 cm in height. They bear cystrocarps. 



Rhodomelaceae. 

 Laurencia Lamour. 

 Laurencia obtusa (Huds.) Lamour.— J. Ag. Sp. IT, p. 750, III, p. 653, 

 —Harv. Phyc. Brit. t. 148. 



Hitherto known from : The Atlantic, the Pacific and the Indian 

 Ocean ; the Adriatic and the Mediterranean Sea ; Japan. 



Polysiphonia Folk. 

 Polysiphonia calothrix, Harv. Phyc. Aust. pi. 185c. J. Ag. Sp. IT, 

 p. 942. 



Hitherto known from : King George's Sound in Australia. 



Polysiphonia glomerulata (Ag.) Undl.—J. Ag. Sp. II, p. 1016.— Harv. 

 Ner. Austr. p. Ab.—Sphaccllaria cupressina, J. Ag. Sp. I, p. 39.— Poly- 

 siphonia calacantha, Harv. Char. New Alg. p. 330. 



Hitherto known from : New Holland ; Friendly Islands ; the 

 Indian Ocean at Ceylon ; East Indies ; Japan ; Kiukiu. 

 Remarks : Two small pieces of broken fronds have been observed 



