Ecology of Kermadec Islands — CHAPMAN 
351 
Total marine algae: Myxophyceae 12 
Chlorophyceae 20 
Phaeophyceae 10 
Rhodophyceae 35 
This is not an impressive list considering the 
variety of habitats available and the fact that 
the islands clearly lie in a zone where there is 
a mingling of cold and warm waters. 
BRYOPHYTA 
The mosses were kindly determined by the 
late Mr. G. O. K. Sainsbury and the liverworts 
by Mrs. Hodgson. 
Musci 
Fissidens pungens C. M. & Hpe. 
Fissidens oblongifolius H. f. & W. First 
record for the Kermadecs. 
Rhizogonium Plongiflorum (Mull.) Jaeg. 
Rhizogonium spinif or me (Hedw.) Bruch. 
"Differs from type in having male flowers 
not synoicous and the perichaetial bracts 
lengthened. It looks as if some people 
would consider the Kermadecs plant to be 
a form of R. longiflorum.” 
Isopterygium minutirameum (C. M.) Jaeg. 
Leucobryum candidum (Brid.) H. f. & W. 
Echinodium hispidum (H. f. & W.) Jaeg. 
Oxyrrhynchium compr es sif olium (Mitt.) 
Broth. "This is quite different from other 
allied forms (Eurhynchium) in New Zea- 
land.” 
Papillaria flaxicaulis (Taylor) Jaeg. 
A canth o cladium extenuatum (Brid.) Mitt. 
"Another first record” for the Kermadecs. 
Rhacopilum Ppacificum 
Hepaticae 
Phaeoceros sp. 
Chiloscyphus argutus Nees. 
Lophocolea heterophylloides Nees. 
Plagiochila sp. 
Asterella sp. 
Marchantia sp. 
Radula sp. 
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