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Cap du Fignier in the Bay of Biscay; he calls them Fucus platy- 
carpus var. limitaneus ; and with reference to them he writes 1. c. 
pp. 171—2: — »En 1896, j’en ai recolte sur un bloc situe en avant 
du Casino, de petits, greles et bien fructifies, en touffes eparses, de 
2 a 3 centimetres de longueur, et j’etonnerai probablement les algo- 
logues qui ont explore seulement les regions plus septentrionales, 
en disant que j’aie pu faire rentrer dans une boite d’allumettes ma 
recolte, qui se composait d’une dizaine d’exemplaires bien entiers«. 
The Fseroese specimens from exposed localities are often as small. 
Several Fseroese examples are shown in fig. 97, the small ones 
being forma nana , the large f. typica. 
This species occurs in the littoral zone along the Faeroes and 
grows in fairly sheltered situations (especially forma typica) as well 
as on exposed coasts (forma nana). In more particularly exposed 
places the latter may be found growing at a considerable height 
above high-water mark, e. g. at Vaags Ejde it occurred at a height 
of some 5 metres. It grows by preference on steeply inclined cliffs 
which are incessantly dashed by the sea in rough weather. On 
the other hand, in calm weather it often suffers from desiccation 
and I have frequently gathered it so dried that it could easily be 
broken. It always grows gregariously and this applies especially 
to forma nana. It has also sometimes been found in rock-pools at 
high levels, e. g. in abundance near Velbestad, specimens from such 
situations being thinner and of slenderer build answering to f. li¬ 
nearis of Fucus in flatus, as f. nana answers to f. disticha. 
Fructifying plants were found in April, May, June, July and 
October. A few specimens gathered in December were sterile. Its 
period of fructification corresponds exactly to that of plants in the 
Norwegian Polar Sea where according to Kj ell man, 1. c. they bear 
receptacles during summer and a part of October. 
This is a very common species of the Fseroese coasts and was 
first mentioned by Landt, 1. c. p. 227. 
154. F. vesiculosus L. Lyngb., Hvdrophyt., p. 3; Kjellm., N. I., 
p. 248 (198); Bosenv., Gronl. Havalg., p. 833. 
var. typica Kjellm., 1. c. 
var. subfusiformis f. lanceolata Kjellm., Handb., p. 9. 
var. rotundata f. rohusta Kjellm., Handb., p. 7. 
I think by far the greater part of the Fseroese material may 
be referred to var. typica ; taken as a whole it agreed well with 
Harvey’s figure in Phycol. Brit., tab. 204, fig. 1. A single specimen 
