A structural and systematic account of the 
genus Struvea. 
BY 
GEORGE MURRAY, F.L.S., 
Senior Assistant, British Museum ; 
AND 
LEONARD A. BOODLE, A.N.S.S., F.L.S. 
With Plate XVI. 
^T^HE genus Struvea was founded by Sonder in 1845, in a 
1 - paper 1 in the Botanische Zeitung for that year, in which 
he described the new algae collected by Preiss in his 
Australian travels. The name was chosen in honour of 
H. de Struve, Ambassador from Russia to the Hanseatic 
Towns, and a patron of Natural History. The only species 
described was S. plumosa , Sond., subsequently figured by 
Kiitzing 2 and later by Harvey 3 . In the same volume 
Harvey figures the next species known under the name 
N. macrophylla , both forms being remarkable for their grace- 
ful habit. We have examined Harvey’s specimens of N. 
plumosa in the British Museum, and Dr. Perceval Wright 
with great kindness sent us for examination not only the 
unique of N. macrophylla , known to Harvey at the time of 
its publication, but also a specimen collected later in the 
same region (West Australia) by Mr. G. Clifton. Harvey’s 
unique is a bleached specimen, but the later one retains its 
1 Nova Algarum genera et species, qnas in itinere ad oras occidentales Novae 
Hollandiae, collegit L. Preiss. G. Sonder, in Botan. Zeit. 1845, p. 49. 
2 Tab. Phyc. Bd. vi. pi. 90. 3 Phyc. Austr. vol. i. pi. 32. 
[Annals of Botany, Vol, II. No. VII. November 1888.] 
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