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also advocated by some. In looking over the records of tropical freshwater 
Confervales one comes to the conclusion that this group is also one which 
plays no great part in the tropics, though certainly represented by a 
number of forms. The records are as follows : — 
1. Characiopsis ellipsoidea , G. S. West. — (a) West, ’ 04 , p. 288 (near Bridge- 
town, Barbados ; epiphytic on Chara, sp.). 
2. Conferva Ansonii , Agardh. — (<2) Schmidle, '00 d, p. 10 (Marianne Islands, 
in a spring). 
3. Conferva bombycina , Ag. — (<2) West and West, ' 93 , p. 265 (f. minor , Wille ; 
in cold, warm, and hot streams, crater of Grand’- Soufriere, Dominica) ; ( b ) West and 
West, ’97 a, p. 34 (f. minor , Wille ; Pungo Andongo; ad ramulos Podostemacearum 
in rivulis, Casalald) ; (c) De Toni, ' 92 , p. 271 (in alveo flumin. Anseba, pr. Arbasciko); 
(< d ) Mobius, ’ 95 , p. 175 (in a small lake, 2,300 metres altitude, Itajahy) ; 
{e) Lemmermann, ' 05 , p.631 (var. minor , Wille; Oahu, Maluhia !) ; (f) Prain, 
’ 05 , p. 329 (River Hughli, near Kidderpore ; Botanic Garden, Shibpur, in ponds) ; 
(g) Zanardini, ’ 72 , p. 151 (Sarawak, in rivulis montis Mattang) ; f) Lagerheim, ’ 90 , 
p. 3 (wet soil in botanic gardens, Quito). 
4. Conferva fontinalis , Berk. — (<2) Turner, ’ 92 , p. 162 (Northern India!); 
(b) Zanardini, ’ 72 , p. 151 (var. ochracea\ Sarawak-Marop, in rivulis). 
5. Conferva funicularis , Agardh. — if) Schmidle, ’00 d, p. 10 (Mariana 
Islands, in the river Agana). 
6. Co 7 iferva Glaziovii , Zeller. — (<2) Zeller, ’ 76 , p. 426 (in Vaucheria sessili 
parasitica). 
7. Conferva sandvicensis , Ag. — See footnote on p. 250. 
8. Conferva tenerrima , Kiitz. — (a) Turner, ' 92 , p. 163 (Northern India!); 
(b) Schmidle, ’02 b, p. 252 (Masote, in river Siwa, but in stagnant water). 
9. Ophiocytium Arbuscula , A. Br. — (a) Lagerheim, ’ 90 , p. 13 ; ( b ) Bohlin, 
’ 97 , p. 30 (Paraguay !). 
10. Ophiocytium biapiculatum , Hieron. — ( a ) Schmidle, ’03 a, p. 83 (quiet 
bay of Mbasi-river near its point of inflow into Lake Nyassa); if) Hieronymus, ’ 95 , 
p. 22 (marshes). 
11. Ophiocytium bicuspidatum , Lemm. — if) West and West, ’02 a, p. 160 
(in muddy ricefield). 
12. Ophiocytium capitatum , Wolle. — (a) Lagerheim, ’ 93 , p. 159 (with Utricu- 
laria inflexa , Forsk.); if) West and West, ’02 b, p. 130 (var. longispinum , Lemmer- 
mann ; running water, Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya). 
13. Ophiocytium cochleare , Nag. — if) West and West, ’ 95 , p. 82 (Madagascar); 
if) Borge, ’ 99 , p. 9 (Argentina, Cordoba!); if) Turner, ' 92 , p. 154 (no locality); 
if) De Wildeman, ’ 97 , p. 79 (Dutch Indies); f) Wille, ' 84 , p. 11 (Caldas!); 
if) Schmidle, ’03 a, p. 83 (ditch near Langenburg) ; (g) Schmidle, ’ 95 , 
p. 296 (no locality); f) De Wildeman, '00, p. 106 (ditches, marshes); {i) Nord- 
stedt, ’ 80 , p. 12 (in UtricuJaria Eckloni)\ ( j ) Gutwinski, '02 a, p. 577 (var. 
bicuspidatum , Borge); if) Hieronymus, ’95, p. 22 (marshes); (/) Lagerheim, ’ 90 , 
p. 13 (en los pantanos en S. Rita); fi) Bohlin, ’ 97 , p. 29 (Paraguay, Matto Grosso ; 
also vars. bicuspidahm and longispinum). 
