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The corallines of the vicinity of Port Renfrew were fully 
described by Dr. K. Yendo, 1901. All these records were 
summed up in the paper by Setchell & Gardner on the algae 
of Northwestern America, 1903, together with some ad- 
ditions, mostly from the collections at Port Renfrew by Miss 
Eloise Butler and Miss Jessie E. Polley. To these can now be 
added the collections by Prof. John Macoun in the years 1887, 
1893, 1908, and 1909, which considerably increase the number of 
species, and give additional localities for many species before 
reported. 
Quite a number of Vancouver algse have been distributed in 
the Phycotheca Boreali-Americana, by Collins, Holden, & Set- 
chell, and in the Centuries of American Algae by Miss Josephine 
Tilden; these will be referred to under their respective species. 
The list is undoubtedly far from complete; a number of 
species even of the larger and more conspicuous algae have been 
collected on the shores of Whidby island, which is United 
States territory, but only a few miles distant from the Vancouver 
Island shore, and there is every reason to suppose that they 
are to be found on the latter. Some other species occurring 
both to the north and the south of the island are to be expected. 
The list is, however, full enough for us to form some general 
estimate of the character of the marine flora. As would be 
expected from the northeast-moving currents of the Pacific, 
it contains many more warm water species than are found in 
the same latitude on the Atlantic shore of British America, 
where the conditions are strictly arctic. On the other hand, some 
quite arctic species are to be found, notably in the genera 
Agarum and Alaria, which in- the Atlantic are sharply marked 
off from the region of Gracilaria, Bcinaia , Laurencia } etc. A 
table has been made up showing the distribution in other 
regions of the various species of brown and red algse, except 
Corallinacese, hero found, as far as we have authentic records. 
Recent collections of Vancouver algse which have been 
utilized for this paper are to be found in three herbaria: that of 
the Geological Survey at Ottawa, that of the University of 
California at Berkeley, California, and that of the author at 
Malden, Massachusetts. For some species reported in Harvey’s 
Lyall paper and not since observed, the herbarium of Trinity 
