Canada 
Geological Survey 
Victoria Memorial Museum 
BULLETIN No. 1 
XIII . — The Marine Algce of Vancouver Island. 
By Frank S. Collins. 
The following pages are intended to include a list of all the 
marine algae that have been collected op the shores of Vancouver 
island* with the exception of the Myxophycese and Diatomacse. 
These orders are composed of inconspicuous plants, and have 
been little noticed in this region, and the Myxophyceae, at least, 
are practically the same in all countries, so that their omission 
here will not be a serious defect. 
The green algae, while not so cosmopolitan as the blue-green, 
are seldom limited to this region; they are largely circumpolar, 
the same species being found in the North Atlantic as in the 
North Pacific; while to some extent this is the case with the 
brown algae, most of the larger forms do not occur in the At- 
lantic, though many do occur on the Asiatic side of the Pacific. 
The red alga include a large number of local forms, but here, 
also, there are species of circumpolar distribution. 
Our first records 1 of algae from this region were from Dr. 
Archibald Menzies, who was here about 1780, and again in the 
years 1792, 1793, and 1794 with the Exploring Expedit on 
commanded by George Vancouver. 
The most important paper is that of Prof. W, H. Harvey, 
1862, giving a list of aigse collected near Esquimalt by Dr. 
David Lyall. A few species are noted by De Alton Saunders 
in his account of the algae of the Harriman Expedition, 1901. 
References to works cited will be by author’s name and date; the full title of 
each is given in the list at the ■end of this paper. 
