a Lf OT XI B RAR.Y OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 580.5 .20 . \-7 BIOIOSY; FRANCIS WOLLE'S FILAMENTOUS MYXOPHYCEAE BY THE UBRMY OF THE JAN 1-1940 UNIVERSITY OF (UtNQH xTp^u^>> X^V^ of *j? N AS NATURAL ^\ r^ HISTORY +* BOTANICAL SERIES FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY VOLUME 20, NUMBER 2 DECEMBER 22, 1939 PUBLICATION 460 •ral History FRANCIS WOLLE'S FILAMENTOUS MYXOPHYCEAE BY FRANCIS DROUET CURATOR OF CRYPTOGAMIC BOTANY THE LIBRARY OF THE JAN 1-1940 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS BOTANICAL SERIES FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY VOLUME 20, NUMBER 2 DECEMBER 22, 1939 PUBLICATION 460 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY FIELD MUSEUM PRESS FB FRANCIS WOLLE'S FILAMENTOUS MYXOPHYCEAE1 FRANCIS DROUET In 1936, Professor Wm. Randolph Taylor suggested that I •J examine, among other historical collections of filamentous Myxo- ] phyceae, the specimens of Francis Wolle on file in the Herbarium of -: the University of Pennsylvania. The study was gradually extended ^ to include material bearing Wolle's annotations in other North American and European herbaria. The observations now presented o are designed to interpret in modern nomenclature many novelties 2 and reports of species which Wolle published in this group of algae. Francis Wolle2 (1817-1893) was a minister and educator of the ^ Moravian Church in Bethlehem and Nazareth, Pennsylvania. He J became interested in natural history at an early age; his first serious work among cryptogams was on local bryophytes, in company with his friend, Eugene A. Rau of Bethlehem. When Wood's Contribution to the Fresh-water Algae of the United States appeared in 1872, he turned his attention to these algae and especially to the desmids. He made large collections in Pennsylvania, New York, and New J Jersey and reported his findings in a series of short papers in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club and the American Monthly Microscopical Journal during the years 1875-1885. He entered into ^~~ correspondence with many contemporary phycologists, including q» F. Hauck, Anton Hansgirg, Otto Nordstedt, and W. G. Farlow. H. W. Ravenel, J. Donnell Smith, Romyn Hitchcock, F. W. Anderson, and various less active collectors sent all of their freshwater algae to him for determination. He issued hundreds of duplicate specimens o in exchanges with these and other workers and thus built up a considerable working herbarium of both European and American " algae. His studies in the desmids led him to publish in 1884 a volume . entitled Desmids of the United States; this he revised and enlarged in ^ 1892. In 1887 he published a two-volume work on the freshwater Myxophyceae, Rhodophyceae, and Chlorophyceae, Fresh-water . < Algae of the United States. With I. C. Martindale he furnished lists <« 1 Contribution from the Osborn Botanical Laboratory of Yale University, the Department of Botany of the Marine Biological Laboratory, and Field Museum O of Natural History. 2 For biographical data, see Appleton's Encyclopaedia of American Biography 3 ^6: 590 (1889); The Moravian (Bethlehem) 38: 97, 103 (1893); Bot. Gaz. 18: 109-110 and Proc. Amer. Microsc. Soc. 15: 245-246 (with photograph) (1894). 17 18 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY— BOTANY, VOL. 20 of algae for Britton's two catalogues of New Jersey plants (see below). The publications mentioned above were based almost entirely upon material which he had examined himself and which is preserved for us today in his own and his correspondents' herbaria. His one purely bibliographic work, Diatomaceae of North America,1 appeared in 1891. As the most voluminous writer on North American algae during the 1870's and 1880's, Francis Wolle excited considerable interest in the freshwater algal flora of the United States. Although he was not a botanist by profession, his accumulated herbarium and his wide acquaintance among phycologists afforded him excellent advantage for careful and meticulous work. His taxonomic concepts, as in- dicated by annotations upon specimens of Myxophyceae, are on the whole similar to those in use today; this fact is unfortunately obscured in his publications by an often unconventional style of writing and by the use of a contemporary nomenclature which is scarcely intel- ligible to us unless we consult his specimens. Wolle's studies of Myxophyceae were in major part already com- pleted before Thuret, Bornet, Flahault, and Gomont published their monumental treatises upon which our present understanding of the morphology and nomenclature among the filamentous forms is based. He worked in an age when the most usable manuals of algae were those of Kiitzing and Rabenhorst, in which were listed hundreds of 1 Francis Wolle accumulated a very small number of diatoms in his herbarium and consulted but few actual specimens during the preparation of this book. It is evident that he had no particular interest in the group and that he wrote the volume for the sole purpose of completing his series of manuals of North American freshwater algae, not as a report of original research. He writes in the preface: "In the present volume is collected the cream of what has already been written on the subject, as well as the figures of all known American species together with the most approved system of classification." In a copy of Habirshaw's Catalogue of the Diatomaceae (1885) in Francis Wolle's library, Dr. H. H. Chase had under- lined in red ink the species known to occur in North America. Wolle found illustra- tions in other publications for the species included in this list. Most of the pen- and-ink drawings of his original plates (now in the possession of Mr. Philip W. Wolle) are direct copies or outline tracings of figures in Schmidt's Atlas der Dia- tomaceen-Kunde, pis. 1-140 (1874-80). Other figures are obviously enlarged free- hand sketches of those of Van Heurck, Synopsis des Diatomes de Belgique (1885). The finished enlargements give the impression of having been made by someone not too sympathetic toward and appreciative of the details of diatom morphology, especially where shapes of cells and position, number, and size of markings are concerned. The figures thus copied from Van Heurck are at best inaccurate, and in some cases quite unlike the species which they were designed to represent. Some of Wolle's figures are original, drawn, according to Mr. Philip W. Wolle, from the published slides of H. L. Smith, Diatomacearum Species Typicae (1874 ff.). The preface to his book states that Francis Wolle submitted the plates to Dr. H. L. Smith for approval before they were photolithographed. Letters which passed between the two men on this subject appear to be lacking in the files of Rev. Wolle's correspondence. — RUTH PATRICK, ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILA- DELPHIA. WOLLE'S FILAMENTOUS MYXOPHYCEAE 19 species and many genera distinguished from each other by means of characters either highly imaginative or of little importance in the classification now in vogue. Such chaotic taxonomy had a natural sequel in the popularity of theories of polymorphism among the algae, like those elaborated in Hansgirg's 'Ueber den Polymorphismus der Algen', Bot. Centralbl., Bd. xxii (1885), and in the preface to Wolle's Fresh-water Algae. In general these theories presupposed that there is no limit to the series of diverse morphological forms which might be assumed by a single species in the course of its com- plete life history. They were truly revolutionary ideas, which claimed the enthusiasm of many respected European workers on algae; they provided a colorful and plausible raison d'etre for the vast array of species and genera in the manuals of the time. Wolle em- ployed the nomenclature of Kiitzing, Rabenhorst, and Kirchner in his publications because there was no other to use; with this fact in mind, the student today need not be astonished that Wolle con- sidered many of the species listed in his Fresh-water Algae as equivocal entities. If we wish to understand the uninformative descriptions and often ambiguous nomenclature in the filamentous Myxophyceae of Kiitzing's Species Algarum (1849) or of Rabenhorst's Flora Eu- ropaea Algarum (1864-68), we find it wise to examine for ourselves the specimens upon which these authors based their descriptions or to consult the works of the few authors who have done so. Bornet & Flahault, in their Revision des Nostocacees H eterocystees (1886-88), and Gomont, in his Monographic des Oscillariees (1892-93), in establishing the modern system of classification and nomenclature in the group, have interpreted most of these specimens in careful scientific language in accord with present ideas of morphology and life histories. Unfortunately, but few of Wolle's specimens fell into the hands of these authors. Setchell in Erythea 4: 189-194 (1896) and ibid. 7: 45-55 (1899) explained a number of additional specimens which had been cited in Wolle's publications. Otherwise, Wolle's Myxophyceae have remained unexamined and uninterpreted for half a century; as a consequence, reference to his publications in recent literature has been largely a source of confusion. A general disinterest in herbarium study of microscopic algae since 1900 and an increasing popularity of bibliographic research among phycophiles have brought about this state of affairs, much to the detriment of Francis Wolle's scientific reputation. In Forti's Sylloge Myxophy- cearum (1907) we find Wolle's now unintelligible descriptions copied 20 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — BOTANY, VOL. 20 verbatim, often with errors of translation, transcription, or typog- raphy. Forti's Latin interpretations have again been translated into English, German, and other languages in recent manuals devoted to Myxophyceae. Students using these manuals find themselves con- fronted with a hodge-podge of species, the descriptions and figures of many quite uninformative. With the specimens of Wolle and other early authors carefully preserved and easily accessible in herbaria, there would seem to be little reason why such confusion should have existed for so long a period of time. For a number of years after his death, Francis Wolle's herbarium and other possessions remained in the hands of his family in Bethle- hem. In December, 1906, some two-thirds of the collection, number- ing several thousand specimens, was presented to the University of Pennsylvania, where it has remained in the Herbarium ever since. The rest of the specimens, along with the scientific library, note- books, and instruments, have been carefully preserved by his grand- son, Mr. Philip Weiss Wolle of Princess Anne, Maryland. Very recently Mr. Wolle placed all the specimens still in his care on file in Field Museum of Natural History. Specimens bearing Francis Wolle's annotations are to be found in considerable numbers in the herbaria of those botanists who received material in exchanges or who sent specimens to Wolle for determina- tion. The Farlow Herbarium contains many such specimens re- ceived by W. G. Farlow. The United States National Herbarium contains the herbaria of J. Donnell Smith and Romyn Hitchcock. The New York Botanical Garden has much Wolle material from the personal collection of Eugene A. Rau. The Herbarium of Oberlin College contains the accumulated collection of F. D. Kelsey. Speci- mens studied by Prof. W. A. Setchell are on file in the Herbarium of the University of California. Specimens of H. W. Ravenel are to be seen in greatest abundance in the British Museum (Natural History) and in the Farlow Herbarium. Other material is in the Brooklyn Botanical Garden and the University of Michigan Herbarium. It is more than probable that specimens exist in other North American and European herbaria not consulted in this study. The specimens of blue-green algae which passed through Wolle's hands are dried on paper or inclosed in envelopes. They are labeled with specific determinations in his handwriting, and commonly with notations of place, habitat, etc. In many instances the notes appear on the back of the mounting paper. Along with other data, letters or numerals are often to be noted; these refer to entries in his admir- WOLLE'S FILAMENTOUS MYXOPHYCEAE 21 able series of illustrated notebooks or to pages and figures in publica- tions consulted. Printed labels are attached to many specimens. The scientific names used in Wolle's earlier papers are in general the same as those which appear on the labels of his specimens. Some of those of the Fresh-water Algae, however, cannot be correlated with specimens because changes in his nomenclature do not appear on the herbarium labels or in the notebooks, and because certain names employed in earlier papers are disregarded in the citation of synonymy in the book. Such names which have not been matched with speci- mens appear at the end of this paper in the list of Inquirenda. Many specimens bear incomplete labels; it is probable that this material is the basis for certain of the dubious reports included in this list. Future investigations may discover the missing data for some of the specimens, and the list may be further shortened by the finding of additional Wolle specimens in herbaria not here consulted. A few records of species cited in the Fresh-water Algae are admittedly dependent upon the specimens of H. C. Wood, the location of whose herbarium is unknown to us at this time. For convenience and to avoid repetition of such records as appear in Tilden's Myxophyceae of North America (1910), I have omitted reference in the treatment below, except in certain special cases, to Forti's Sylloge Myxophycearum. Likewise, reference to Wolle's list of freshwater algae in Britton, A Preliminary Catalogue of the Plants of New Jersey (1881) is omitted because the same list of species in revised form is repeated in Britton, Final Rep. State Geol. New Jersey, vol. ii (1889). No reference is made to VanDersal & Cart- ledge, Proc. Pennsylvania Acad. Sci. 7: 1-7 (1933), in which Wolle's Pennsylvania records are copied. I wish to express my gratitude for the co-operation of many per- sons during the course of this study: some have supplied invaluable information concerning Francis Wolle and his specimens; these and others have offered suggestions and performed numerous other courtesies. Among the many who have aided me I wish to thank especially Mr. Philip W. Wolle, Prof. Wm. Randolph Taylor, Prof. Wm. A. Setchell, Prof. John M. Fogg, Jr., Dr. Ruth Patrick, Prof. Charles Hodge, Mrs. Hartley C. Wolle, Prof. Tracy E. Hazen, Dr. Wm. N. Schwarze, Dr. B. E. Dahlgren, Dr. Julian A. Steyermark, Mr. Donald Richards, Miss Sophia Prior, Prof. Frederick Grover, Dr. F. R. Fosberg, Miss Rosalie Weikert, Dr. D. H. Linder, Dr. Ray Dawson, Dr. Vivian Trombetta, Dr. H. K. Svenson, and Dr. Wm. R. 22 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — BOTANY, VOL. 20 Maxon. This work, in large part, was made possible through the aid of the Theresa Seessel Research Fellowship at Yale University. In the citation of specimens below, herbaria are indicated by means of the following abbreviations: B, Brooklyn Botanic Garden; BM, British Museum (Natural History) ; C, Herbarium of the Uni- versity of California; D, my personal herbarium; F, Farlow Her- barium of Harvard University; FM, Field Museum of Natural History; G, Herbarium of Goucher College, Baltimore; Mi, Her- barium of the University of Michigan; N, New York Botanical Garden; O, Herbarium of Oberlin College; P, Herbarium of the University of Pennsylvania; Pa, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia; PW, the collection of Philip W. Wolle in Field Museum of Natural History; T, Herbarium of Wm. Randolph Taylor; U, United States National Herbarium. Specimens cited without name of collector are to be understood as containing no such data or as bearing the name of Francis Wolle. For the sake of brevity I men- tion only the surnames of Dr. H. W. Ravenel, Capt. John Donnell Smith, Dr. C. F. Austin, and Dr. Romyn Hitchcock. Throughout the treatment the abbreviation 'F. W. Alg.' is employed in place of Wolle's Fresh-water Algae of the United States (1887). Stigonemataceae STIGONEMA MAMILLOSUM (Lyngb.) Ag. ex Born. & Flah., Ann. Sci. Nat. VII Bot. 5: 77 (1887). Stigonema multipartitum Gardn., Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 14: 9 (1927). S. robustum Gardn., loc. cit. (1927). S. contortum Gardn., ibid. 11 (1927). S. canadense Wm. R. Taylor, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 80: 94 (1928). S. mamillosum f. robustum Drouet, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Bot. Ser. 20: 5 (1939).— Recent studies of considerable material of this species from Europe, both Americas, and Asia, including the original material upon which the above names are based, point to the conclusion that plants with slender filaments and those with broad filaments are but growth forms of a single variable species often in various stages of licheni- zation. Specimens seen: NEW JERSEY: stones, shore of lake (0); on rocks in stream, Sandfield, Austin, 1871 (P) ; Green Pond, 1880 (N) ; 'Sirosiphon lacustris' (P). References: as Sirosiphon coralloides in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 185 (1877), ibid. 8: 29 (1881), F. W. Alg. 270 (1887), Britton Final Rep. Geol. N. J. 2: 605 (1889); as S. lacustris in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 185 (1877); as S. pulvinatus in Wolle, F. W. Alg. 268 (1887) in part; as Stigonema informe in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 249 (1910) in part. WOLLE'S FILAMENTOUS MYXOPHYCEAE 23 STIGONEMA INFORME Kiitz. ex Born. & Flah., ibid. 5: 75 (1887).— Specimens seen: PENNSYLVANIA: 'Scytonema callitrichoides' (P); rocks, Onoko, July 1875 (D, P); wet rocks (N, U); July, Nov. 1875 (F). MARYLAND: Falls of Deep Creek, Garrett County, Smith, July 1878 (P, U). References: as Sirosiphon alpinus in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 185 (1877); as S. pulvinatus in Wolle, F. W. Alg. 268 (1887) in major part; as S. pulvinatus f. alpinus in Wolle, ibid. 269 (1887) in part; as Stigonema informe in Setchell, Erythea 4: 191 (1896), in Tilden, ibid. 249 (1910), in part, in Drouet, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Bot. Ser. 20: 5 (1939). STIGONEMA MINUTUM (Ag.) Hass. ex Born. & Flah., ibid. 5: 72 (1887). Sirosiphon lignicola Wood ex Born. & Flah. pro. synon., ibid. 5: 73 (1887); Wood, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 11: 133 (1869). S. acervatus Wood ex Born. & Flah. pro. synon., loc. cit. (1887); Wood, ibid. 132 (1869). S. pulvinatus f. mamillosus Wolle,1 F. W. Alg. 270 (1887). — Specimens seen: PENNSYLVANIA: Onoko, 1875 (F, P); shaded rocks (C, D, P); 'Stigonema minutum var. saxicola' (Wittr. & Nordst., Alg. exs. 669, N, PW); 'Sirosiphon compactus' (P). MARYLAND: Deep Creek, Garrett County, Smith, July 1878 (U). WEST VIRGINIA: Blackwater, Tucker County, Smith, July 1878 (U); Blackwater Fork of Cheat River, Smith, July 1878 (U). SOUTH CAROLINA: on boards, Aiken, Ravenel 39 (ISOTYPE of Sirosiphon lignicola, C), 76 (F), 240 (P), 375 (F); Aiken, Ravenel 146 (F), 547, 549, 550, Dec. 1884 (PW) ; granite walls, Aiken, Ravenel 498, Nov. 1883 (F); in running water, Aiken, Ravenel 74, Apr. 1869 (C); Aiken, on bark of trees, Ravenel 107, (C), 109 (BM); on limbs of Nyssa, Ravenel 169 (C); on bark of Ilex opaca, Ravenel 44 (ISOTYPE of Si- rosiphon acervatus, C); on Ailanthus, Aiken, Ravenel 300 (BM); on pine boards, St. Johns, Berkeley Parish, Charleston, Ravenel 339, Mar. 1880 (F). References: as Stigonema minutum var. saxicola in Wolle, Wittr. & Nordst. Alg. exs. 13: 669 (1883); as Sirosiphon pulvinatus f. alpinus in Wolle, F. W. Alg. 269 (1887) in part; as S. compactus in Wolle, ibid. 271 (1887) in part; as S. lignicola in Wolle, ibid. 273 (1887) in part; as Sligonema minutum in Setchell, Erythea 7: 47 (1899), in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 248 (1910), in Drouet, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Bot. Ser. 20: 4 (1939); as S. tomentosum in Tilden, ibid. 246 (1910). STIGONEMA PANNIFORME (Ag.) Born. & Flah., ibid. 5: 71 (1887). Sirosiphon argillaceus Wood ex Born. & Flah. pro. synon., loc. cit. (1887); Wood, Smiths. Contrib. Knowl. 241: 73 (1872).— Specimens 1 1 find no specimens labeled thus, but it appears certain that the West Virginia specimens labeled S. alpinus and cited here form the basis of the description and figure of S. pulvinatus f. mamillosus. Mixed with Stigonema minutum in this material are poorly developed filaments possibly referable to S. informe Born. & Flah. 24 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — BOTANY, VOL. 20 seen: SOUTH CAROLINA: damp clay, Aiken, Ravenel 79 (ISOTYPE of Sirosiphon argillaceus, F), 216, 225 (F, P), 544 (PW). References: as S. compactus in Wolle, F. W. Alg. 271 (1887) in part; as S. argillaceus in Wolle, ibid. 273 (1887); as Stigonema panniforme in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 245 (1910) in part. STIGONEMA OCELLATUM (Dillw.) Thur. ex Born. & Flah., ibid. 5: 69 (1887). S. anomalum Blanchard,1 Rhodora 15: 194 (1913).— Specimens seen: NEW JERSEY: 'Sirosiphon ocellatus' (D, N); 'S. Crameri' (P); old path, Closter, Nov. 1877 (P); with Hapalosiphon pumilus, Bamber, Ocean County (P) ; in Bamber Lake, 1883 (Wittr. & Nordst., Alg. exs. 668, PW, N). References: as Sirosiphon ocellatus in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 285 (1879), Wittr. & Nordst. Alg. exs. 13: 668 (1883), F. W. Alg. 272 (1887), Britton Final Rep. Geol. N. J. 2: 605 (1889); as S. Crameri in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 185 (1877), F. W. Alg. 272 (1887); as Stigonema ocellatum in Setchell, Erythea 7: 48 (1899), in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 247 (1910). STIGONEMA HORMOIDES (Kiitz.) Born. & Flah., ibid. 5: 68 (1887). Sommierella hormoides Borzi, N. Giorn. Bot. Ital., N. S. 24: 79 (1917). — Specimens seen: PENNSYLVANIA: with Stigonema informe, wet rocks, 1878 (N, U); 'Scytonema callitrichoides' (D, P). References: as Sirosiphon compactus in Wolle, F. W. Alg. 271 (1887) in part; as Stigonema hormoides in Setchell, Erythea 7: 47 (1899). FISCHERELLA THERMALIS (Born. & Flah.) Gom., Journ. de Bot. 9: 52 (1895). Stigonema thermale (Schwabe) Borzi ex Born. & Flah., Ann. Sci. Nat. VII Bot. 5: 66 (1887). — Specimens seen: NEW JERSEY: rotten wood, Austin (P). FLORIDA : Smith, Mar. 1878 (P, U). TEXAS: on damp fallen logs, Houston, Ravenel 21 (P). Reference: as Hapalosiphon Braunii in Wolle, F. W. Alg. 275 (1887) in part. FISCHERELLA AMBIGUA (Born. & Flah.) Gom., loc. cit. (1895). Scytonema ambiguum Kiitz. ex Born. & Flah., ibid. 5: 100 (1887). S. badium Wolle ex Born. & Flah. sp. inquir., ibid. 5: 111 (1887); Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 184 (1877). Phormidium interruptum var. rigidum Gardn., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 7: 44 (1927).— The well preserved original material of Scytonema badium is similar to specimens of Fischerella ambigua treated by Gomont. Specimens seen: NEW YORK: Herkimer County, Austin, 1868 (TYPE of Scytonema 1 Isotypic material of S. anomalum distributed in Phyc. Bor.-Amer. 1952, MASSACHUSETTS: Chebacco Pond, Essex, F. D. Lambert, Oct. 1909 (F, FM, N), appears to me to represent a growth form of S. ocellatum with well developed narrow branches and hyaline sheaths; in older parts of the same masses, the filaments are similar in every respect to those of other specimens of S. ocellatum. WOLLE'S FILAMENTOUS MYXOPHYCEAE 25 badium, P). SOUTH CAROLINA: with Schizothrix arenaria on ground, Aiken, Ravenel 254 (F), 502 (PW). References: as Scytonema badium in Forti, Syll. Myxophyc. 524 (1907), in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 225 (1910), in Geitler, Rabenh. Krypt-Fl. 14: 786 (1932). FISCHERELLA MAJOR Com., Journ. de Bot. 16: 299 (1902).— The few specimens are similar to the material (presumably isotypic) distributed in Mus. Vindob. Krypt. Exs. 333 (N). They are: SOUTH CAROLINA: earth, Aiken, Ravenel 102 (EM), 143 (BM, F); granite walls, Aiken, Ravenel 498, Nov. 1883 (PW). Reference: as Symploca lucifuga in Wolle, F. W. Alg. 303 (1887) in part. HAPALOSIPHON PUMILUS (Kiitz.) Kirchn. ex Born. & Flah., Ann. Sci. Nat. VII Bot. 5: 61 (1887). H. fontinalis (Ag.) Born., Bull. Soc. Bot. France 36: 156 (1889). H. brasiliensis Borge, Ark. f. Bot. 15 (13): 94 (1919). — Specimens seen: NEW JERSEY: Swartwood Lake, 1879 (D, P); Bamber, Ocean County (P); Hammerton Pond, Aug. 1879 (P; Wittr. & Nordst., Alg. exs. 390, N. PW, U); Absecon, July 1878 (D, P). PENNSYLVANIA: with Porphyrosiphon Notarisii as 'Hydrocoleum heterotrichum' (P); 'Hapalosiphon Braunii' (U). SOUTH CAROLINA: in pools of water, Aiken, Ravenel, Feb. 1878 (P), 470, Nov. 1883 (PW). References: as H. Braunii in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 285 (1879), Wittr. & Nordst. Alg. exs. 8: 390 (1880), F. W. Alg. 275 (1887), Britton Final Rep. Geol. N. J. 2: 606 (1889), in part; as H.fuscescens of Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 285 (1879), F. W. Alg. 277 (1885), Britton Final Rep. Geol. N. J. 2: 606 (1889); as H. fontinalis in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 239 (1910). Nostocaceae NOSTOC PISCINALE Kiitz. ex Born. & Flah., Ann. Sci. Nat. VII Bot. 7: 194 (1888).— Specimens seen: PENNSYLVANIA: pool, Aug. 1876 (F); canal below Nisky (N); pool near Bethlehem (P, U); 'N. la- custre-comminutum' (D, P). References: as N. comminutum in Wolle, F. W. Alg. 282 (1887) in part, in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 165 (1910) in part. NOSTOC RIVULARE Kiitz. ex Born. & Flah., ibid. 7: 195 (1888).— Specimens seen: GEORGIA: still water, Darien, Ravenel 445, Nov. 1881 (F). FLORIDA: Smith, 1878 (P, U). References: as N. comminutum in Wolle, loc. cit. (1887) in part, in Tilden, loc. cit. (1910) in part; as Cylindrospermum flexuosum in Wolle, ibid. 292 (1887) in part. NOSTOC COMMUNE Vauch. ex Born. & Flah., ibid. 7: 203 (1888).— Specimens seen: NEW YORK: Portage, 1876 (P); on moss, Niagara, 1876 (P). NEW JERSEY: rocks, Austin (P); Closter, 1863 (P). PENN- 26 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY— BOTANY, VOL. 20 SYLVANIA: in consortis Scytonem. Myochr. (Wittr. & Nordst., Alg. exs. 890, N, PW); Rockdale, 1863 (P). FLORIDA: Smith, Mar. 1878 (U). MONTANA: F. W. Anderson, 1886 (PW). COLORADO: on water, on moist ground, Brandegee, 1877 (P); on Grimmia, Austin1 (U); May 1877 (N). References: as N. Muscorum in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 283 (1879), F. W. Alg. 282 (1887), in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 169 (1910); as N. comminutum in Wolle, loc. cit. (1887) in part; as N. humifusum in Wolle, loc. cit. (1887), in Tilden, ibid. 170 (1910); as N. commune in Wolle, F. W. Alg. 283 (1887), Britton Final Rep. Geol. N. J. 2: 606 (1889), Wittr. & Nordst. Alg. exs. 18: 890 (1890), in Tilden, ibid. 171 (1910); as N. sphaericum in Wolle, F. W. Alg. 283 (1887) in part, in Tilden, ibid. 173 (1910) in part; as N. caeruleum of Wolle, ibid. 284 (1887), in Tilden, ibid. 177 (1910). NOSTOC COMMUNE var. FLAGELLIFORME (Berk. & Curt.) Born. & Flah., ibid. 7: 206 (1888).— The Texas collection is of the same material as that distributed by Farlow, Anderson & Eaton in Alg. Am. Bor. Exs. 100. Specimens seen: KANSAS: on red clay soil, Bar- bour County, F. W. Cregin, 1888 (D, P). TEXAS: C. Wright (FM, P). References: as N. flagelliforme in Wolle, F. W. Alg. 285 (1887); as N. commune var. flagelliforme in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 173 (1910). NOSTOC MICROSCOPICUM Carm. ex Born. & Flah., Ann. Sci. Nat. VII Bot. 7: 210 (1888). — Specimens seen: PENNSYLVANIA: wet rocks (D, P); Pike County (D, P). References: as N. riparium in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 217 (1878) in part; as N. sphaericum in Wolle, F. W. Alg. 283 (1887) in part, in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 173 (1910) in part. NOSTOC CAERULEUM Lyngb. ex Born. & Flah., ibid. 7: 213 (1888). —One specimen: MINNESOTA: Lake of the Isles, Minneapolis, E. Butler, 1883 (PW). NOSTOC PRUNIFORME (L.) Ag. ex Born. & Flah., ibid. 7: 215 (1888). — Specimens seen: NEW JERSEY: in rivulets, Closter, Austin (P), 1870 (P), 1877 (P); 'N. cristatum-riparium' (P). PENNSYLVANIA: 'N. pruniforme' (B, O, P, U) ; river stones (0, P) ; canal below Nisky (N) ; pool near Bethlehem, Aug. 1878 (P, U) ; in stagnis, Bethlehem, 1877 (Rabenh. Alg. 2530, N); meadow pools (D, O, P, U); rock pool, Nisky (N); near Brofuss Lock, Aug. 1877 (N). References: as N. cristatum in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 183 (1877); as N. riparium in Wolle, loc. cit. (1877) in part; as Af. pruniforme in Wolle, loc. cit. (1877), Rabenh. Alg. 2530 (1878), F. W. Alg. 284 (1887), in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 178 (1910); as N. sphaericum in Wolle, ibid. (1887) in part, in Tilden, ibid. 173 (1910) in part; as N. alpinum in Wolle, ibid. 285 in part (1887), Britton Final Rep. Geol. N. J. 2: 606 (1889); as N. parmelioides in Tilden, ibid. 181 (1910) in part. 1 This label is in Capt. Smith's handwriting. The collection is more probably one by T. S. Brandegee than one by C. F. Austin. WOLLE'S FILAMENTOUS MYXOPHYCEAE 27 NOSTOC VERRUCOSUM (L.) Vauch. ex Born. & Flah., ibid. 7: 216 (1888). — Specimens seen: PENNSYLVANIA: Skinner's Spring, July 1877 (D, N, 0, P); 'N. alpinum' (F, P); Derry Church, Dauphin County, Oct. 1887 (PW). References: as N. verrucosum in Wolle, F. W. Alg. 284 (1887), in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 179 (1910); as N. alpinum in Wolle, ibid. 285 (1887) in part. NOSTOC PARMELIOIDES Kutz. ex Born. & Flah., ibid. 219 (1888). — One specimen: PENNSYLVANIA: Monocasy's Spring, 1877 (N). References: as N. alpinum in Wolle, F. W. Alg. 285 (1887) in part; as AT. parmelioides in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 181 (1910) in part. NOSTOC sp. — One ill-preserved specimen: CALIFORNIA: on Cla- dophora (P). References: as N. glomeratum in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 183 (1877), in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 177 (1910). WOLLEA SACCATA (Wolle) Born. & Flah., Ann. Sci. Nat. VII Bot. 7: 223 (1888). Sphaerozyga saccata Wolle ex Born. & Flah. pro. synon., loc. cit. (1888); Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 7: 44 (1880).— The spores in the collections are by no means mature. Specimens seen: NEW JERSEY: cranberry pond, Waterloo, 1879 (ISOTYPE, P) ; pond (0) ; in aqua stagnante, July 1879 (ISOTYPE in Wittr. & Nordst., Alg. exs. 397, N, PW). References: as Sphaerozyga saccata in Wolle, Wittr. & Nordst. Alg. exs. 8: 397 (1880), F. W. Alg. 290 (1887); as Wollea saccata in Wolle, Britton Final Rep. Geol. N. J. 2: 607 (1889), in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 181 (1910). ANABAENA CIRCINALIS (Kutz.) Rabenh. ex Born. & Flah., Ann. Sci. Nat. VII Bot. 7: 230 (1888). Microcystis lobata Dickie, Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 18: 128 (1880). Anabaena scabra Dickie ex Born. & Flah. sp. inquir., ibid. 7: 239 (1888). — One specimen: MINNESOTA: Minneapolis, E. Butler, Oct. 1882 (P). References: as A. circinalis in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 10: 21 (1883), in Tilden, ibid. 190 (1910); as A. flos-aquae var. circinalis in Wolle, F. W. Alg. 287 (1887). ANABAENA CATENULA (Kutz.) Born. & Flah., ibid. 7: 232 (1888). —One collection: MINNESOTA: Lake Stay, E. Doolittle, 1888 (PW). ANABAENA OSCILLARIOIDES Bory ex Born. & Flah., ibid. 7: 233 (1888). — Specimens seen: PENNSYLVANIA: 'Cylindrospermum flexu- osum' (D, P). GEORGIA: salt marsh mud flats, Darien, Ravenel 311 (F). MONTANA: Helena, F.D.Kelsey, 1889 (PW); Oro Fino Gulch near Helena, F. W. Anderson 43, June 1887 (PW). References: as Cylindrospermum limicola in Wolle, F. W. Alg. 292 (1887) in part; as C. flexuosum in Wolle, loc. cit. (1887) in part; as Anabaena oscillarioides in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 193 (1910) in part. 28 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY— BOTANY, VOL. 20 ANABAENA spp.? — These specimens appear to represent species of Anabaena but are in a sporeless or otherwise unrecognizable state: PENNSYLVANIA: 'Limnochilde' (P). SOUTH CAROLINA: Smith, Mar. 1878 (P). References: as Aphanizomenon flos-aquae in Wolle, F. W. Alg. 291 (1887), in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 196 (1910); as Cylindrospermum limicola in Wolle, ibid. 292 (1887) in part. CYLINDROSPERMUM MAJUS Kiitz. ex Born. & Flah., Ann. Sci. Nat. VII Bot. 7: 252 (1888). C. janthinum Dickie ex Born. & Flah. sp. inquir., ibid. 7: 255 (1888). — The material labeled Thormidium congestum' by Wolle is a mixture of C. majus and several terrestrial species of Schizothrix and Microcoleus, each varying in abundance in specimens represented in several herbaria. There is evidence that the collection was made on Wolle's trip to Niagara Falls in August, 1876. Specimens seen: NEW YORK: Thormidium congestum', sandy deposit, Aug. 1876 (P). PENNSYLVANIA: wet wood (D, N, P, U); 'Cylindrospermum macrospermum' (O). MARYLAND: rocks, Balti- more County, Smith, May 1878 (P, U). SOUTH CAROLINA: Smith, Mar. 1878 (U); standing pools, Aiken, Ravenel, Oct. 1883 (PW). References: as Phormidium congestum in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 138 (1877) in part, in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 118 (1910) in part; as Cylindrospermum macro- spermum in Wolle, F. W. Alg. 292 (1887) in part; as C. limicola in Wolle, loc. cit. (1887) in part; as C. stagnale in Tilden, ibid. 198 (1910) in part; as C. majus in Drouet, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Bot. Ser. 20: 6 (1939). CYLINDROSPERMUM LICHENIFORME (Bory) Kiitz. ex Born. & Flah., ibid. 7: 253 (1888).— Specimens seen: FLORIDA: Mar. 1878 (P); southwestern Florida, Smith, Mar. 1878 (U). References: as C. macrospermum in Wolle, F. W. Alg. 292 (1887) in part; as C. stagnale in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 198 (1910) in part. CYLINDROSPERMUM MUSCICOLA Kiitz. ex Born. & Flah., ibid. 7: 254 (1888). C. caeruleum Dickie ex Born. & Flah., sp. inquir., ibid. 7: 255 (1888). — Specimens seen: GEORGIA: salt water mud flats, Darien, Ravenel, Apr. 1878 (P). FLORIDA: Smith, Mar. 1878 (D, P,U). Rivulariaceae AMPHITHRIX JANTHINA (Mont.) Born. & Flah., Ann. Sci. Nat. VII Bot. 3: 344 (1886). — Specimens seen: PENNSYLVANIA: on stones in spring water (D, P, U); 'Mastigonema caespitosum' (P). References: as Mastigonema caespitosum in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 138 (1877) in part; as Isactis caespitosa in Wolle, F. W. Alg. 245 (1887) in part; as Leptothrix caespitosa in Wolle, ibid. 320 (1887) in part; as Calothrix parietina in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 269 (1910) in part. WOLLE'S FILAMENTOUS MYXOPHYCEAE 29 CALOTHRIX JULIANA (Menegh.) Born. & Flah., ibid. 3: (1886).— One collection: PENNSYLVANIA: 'Geocyclus oscillarinus', river stones (D, N, P). CALOTHRIX PULVINATA (Mert.) Ag. ex Born. & Flah., ibid. 3: 356 (1886). Mastigonema velutinum Wolle ex Born. & Flah., ibid. 5: 94 (1887), as to Wolle's specimens described and distributed, not as to the TYPE in Herb. Bornet interpreted by Bornet & Flahault?; Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 283 (1879).— Wolle's M. velutinum was described and later distributed in Wittr. & Nordst., Alg. exs. 388, as a plant of salt water. Bornet & Flahault, however, have placed the name as a synonym of the strictly non-marine Scytonema guyanense. Moreover, these authors have cited this same published isotypic material in their treatment of Calothrix scopulorum Born. & Flah., ibid. 3: 353 (1886). To dispose of the name Mastigonema velutinum properly we must await a reinterpretation of the specimen designated as the TYPE ('specim. auth.') in Bornet's herbarium. Specimens seen: NEW JERSEY: on wood, submarine, 1878 (original material of M. velutinum, N, P, U); Perth Amboy, July 1878 (Wittr. & Nordst., Alg. exs. 388, N, PW). GEORGIA: salt water creeks, Darien, Ravenel, Apr. 1878 (P), 308 (BM). References: as M. velutinum in Wolle, Wittr. & Nordst. Alg. exs. 8: 388 (1880); as M. aerugineum in Wolle, F. W. Alg. 241 (1887), Britton Final Rep. Geol. N. J. 2: 603 (1889). CALOTHRIX PARIETINA (Nag.) Thur. ex Born. & Flah., ibid. 3: 366 (1886). Mastigothrix turgida Wolle ex Forti, Syll. Myxophyc. 632 (1907); Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 184 (1877) .—Specimens seen: MASSACHUSETTS: on stones, Woods Hole, W. G. Farlow, Aug. 1876 (P). NEW YORK: old boards, Niagara, Aug. 1876 (P). PENNSYLVANIA Tilinia diluta' (D, P); 'Mastigothrix turgida, n. sp.' (TYPE of Masti- gothrix turgida, P; isotype, D); stones in limestone springs (D, P). FLORIDA: 'Mastigonema pluviale', Mar. 1878 (P). References: as Calothrix Crustacea in Wolle, F. W. Alg. 239 (1887); as C. parietina in Setchell, Erythea 7: 45 (1899); as Mastigothrix turgida in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 273 (1910). CALOTHRIX BRAUNII Born. & Flah., ibid. 3: 368 (1886). Inactis obscura Dickie ex Gom. sp. excl., Ann. Sci. nat. VII Bot. 15: 329 (1892); Dickie, Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 18: 126 (1880); Drouet, Amer. Journ. Bot. 25: 660 (1938). — Specimens seen: PENNSYLVANIA: large spring, Nazareth, July 1887 (D, PW); Derry Church, Dauphin County, Oct. 1887 (PW). Reference: as Isactis caespitosa in Wolle, F. W. Alg. 244 (1877) in part. 30 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — BOTANY, VOL. 20 CALOTHRIX ADSCENDENS (Nag.) Thur. ex Born. & Flah., ibid. 3: 365 (1886). C. violacea (Wolle) Forti, Syll. Myxophyc. 619 (1907). Mastigonema violaceum Wolle ex Forti pro. synon., loc. cit. (1907); Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 138 (1877). M. fuscum Wolle ex Forti, ibid. 618 (1907); Wolle, loc. cit. (1877). Calothrix Fortii J. DeToni, Noter. Nomencl. Algol. 1:6 (1934). — Specimens seen: PENNSYLVANIA: parasitic on Lyngbya Wollei and Cladophora (TYPES of Calothrix violacea and Mastigonema fuscum, P; isotypes, D, F). References: as Leptothrix parasitica in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 182 (1877); as Calothrix adscendens in Setchell, Erythea 7: 46 (1899), in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 267 (1910); as C. violacea in Tilden, loc. cit. (1910); as C. fusca in Tilden, ibid. 265 (1910). DICHOTHRIX HOSFORDII (Wolle) Born, apud Setchell, Erythea 4: 190 (1896). Calothrix Hosfordii Wolle ex Born. & Flah. sp. inquir., Ann. Sci. Nat. VII Bot. 3: 370 (1886); Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 8: 38 (1881). — The specimen from Vermont is annotated by C. G. Pringle, fellow collector of F. H. Hosford to whom Wolle ascribes the original collection. The mass is scanty and poorly developed; the filaments are very young, but they match well young filaments in specimens distributed as D. Hosfordii by Prof. Setchell. The specimen from New York is a duplicate of that upon which Bornet and Setchell based the binomial D. Hosfordii, and which is mentioned by Set- chell in Phyc. Bor.-Amer. 5: 215 (1896) as having been "referred to Calothrix Hosfordii by Mr. Wolle himself." Specimens seen: VERMONT: wet rocks, La Plata River, Charlotte (F). NEW YORK: on submerged stones, Lake George, S. E. Jeliffe, Oct. 1892 (N). References: as Calothrix Hosfordii in Wolle, F. W. Alg. 239 (1887); as Dicho- thrix Hosfordii in Forti, Syll. Myxophyc. 640 (1907), in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 278 (1910). DICHOTHRIX BAUERIANA (Grim.) Born & Flah., ibid. 3: 375 (1886). — Specimens seen: NEW JERSEY: Morris Pond, July 1879 (Wittr. & Nordst., Alg. exs. 389, N, PW). PENNSYLVANIA: 'Calo- thrix radiosa' (P). FLORIDA: Smith, Mar. 1878 (P, U). TERRITORY OF HAWAII: from rockery, Wailuku, Hitchcock, July 1881 (U). References: as Schizosiphon Bauerianus in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 284 (1879); as Calothrix Orsiniana in Wolle, Wittr. & Nordst. Alg. exs. 8: 389 (1880), Bull. Torr. Club. 8: 38 (1881) ; as C. radiosa var.fuscescens in Wolle, loc. cit. (1881); as C. affinis in Wolle, ibid. 9: 25 (1882); as C. radiosa in Wolle, F. W. Alg. 238 (1887), Britton Final Rep. Geol. N. J. 2: 603 (1889); as Dichothrix Baueriana in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 276 (1910). WOLLE'S FILAMENTOUS MYXOPHYCEAE 31 DICHOTHRIX ORSINIANA (Ktitz.) Born. & Flah., Ann. Sci. Nat. VII Bot. 3: 376 (1886).— One collection: NEW YORK: Niagara, Aug. 1876 (F,P). References: as Mastigonema Orsinianum in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 138 (1877); as Dichothrix Orsiniana in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 275 (1910) in part. RIVULARIA HAEMATITES (DC.) Ag. ex Born. & Flah., ibid. 4: 350 (1886). — The specimens cited here from the Farlow Herbarium were annotated by Bornet in 1899 as the marine and brackish-water species R. Biasolettiana Menegh. ex Born. & Flah. One collection: NEW YORK: Niagara, Aug. 1876 (F, P). Reference: as Zonotrichia chrysocoma in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 138 (1877). GLOEOTRICHIA ECHINULATA (Born. & Flah.) Richt., Forschungs- ber. Biol. Sta. Plon 2: 32 (1894). Rivularia echinulata Engl. Bot. ex Born. & Flah., Ann. Sci. Nat. VII Bot. 4: 366 (1886).— Many papers have been written concerning why we should or should not con- sider Gloeotrichia echinulata and G. Pisum as distinct species; the earlier literature is reviewed by Bornet & Flahault in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 31: 76-81 (1884), by Richter (ibid.), by Howe in Torreya 3: 150-154 (1903), and by others. Bornet & Flahault's work alone is based upon a comparative study of collections from many widely separated localities; these authors placed the two forms together under the name G. Pisum. The numerous other papers which have come to my attention contain, aside from the customary meticulous review of literature, no more than lengthy dissertations upon the morphology of the plants as they appear in water-blooms on local ponds and lakes. Intimate details of the life history of each form are still lacking. In recent studies I have had access to scarcely a hundred different collections of the two forms, living and preserved, from many parts of the world, including those seen by Bornet & Flahault, Richter, Howe, and others. At present I can find no sound morpho- logical or ecological basis upon which to separate the two as distinct species. I retain the two names here only as a matter of convenience to indicate, as Bornet & Flahault have already suggested, what may be two extremes of habitat and growth relationship: G. echinulata the small form, usually planktonic, and G. Pisum the small or large form, known to be attached to a substratum in the juvenile state and later floating free in the water. Wolle's notes on Rivularia radians var. minutula in Bull. Torr. Club 8: 38 (1881) should give us little doubt that he referred here to Gloeotrichia echinulata. However, this report is the basis of Tilden's inclusion (Minn. Alg. 1: 288) of Rivularia minutula (Kiitz.) Born. & 32 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY— BOTANY, VOL. 20 Flah. in the North American flora. Specimens seen: MINNESOTA: floating in the lake, Waterville, J. C. Arthur, July 1882 (F), Aug. 1882 (F). References: as Rivularia echinulata in Wolle, F. W. Alg. 249 (1887), in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1:291 (1910). GLOEOTRICHIA PISUM (Ag.) Thur. ex Born. & Flah., Ann. Sci. Nat. VII Bot. 4: 366 (1886). Rivularia Pisum Ag. ex Born. & Flah. pro. synon., loc. cit. (1886). R. paradoxa (Wolle) Forti, Syll. Myx- ophyc. 672 (1907). Zonotrichia paradoxa Wolle ex Forti, ibid. 636 (1907); Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 138 (1877).— In the original material of Z. paradoxa most of the vegetative cells have disappeared from the plants, but the remaining spores are very typical of Gloeo- trichia Pisum. Specimens seen: PENNSYLVANIA: culms of Sagittaria (TYPE of Zonotrichia paradoxa, P; isotypes, N, U); 'Gloeotrichia- Rivularia' (P). MONTANA: Grand Coulee Creek, F. W. Anderson, Sept. 1889 (PW). References: as Zonotrichia paradoxa in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 184 (1877); as Rivularia paradoxa in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 289 (1910). GLOEOTRICHIA NATANS (Hedw.) Rabenh. ex Born. & Flah., ibid. 4: 369 (1886). Rivularia natans (Hedw.) Welw. ex Born. & Flah. pro. synon., loc. cit. (1886) . Calolhrix scytonemicola var. brasiliensis Borge, Ark. f. Bot. 19 (17): 5 (1925). Rivularia (Gloeotrichia) flagel- liformis Gardn., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 7: 71 (1927).— Speci- mens seen: NEW YORK: ponds, Buffalo, Aug. 1876 (D, F, N, P, U). PENNSYLVANIA: culms in stagnant water (D, P); an Halmen von Wasserpflanzen und Sagittaria, Bethlehem, July 1877 (Rabenh. Alg. 2539, N, T). SOUTH CAROLINA: Santee Canal, Ravenel (BM). References: as G. natans in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 138 (1877), F. W. Alg. 246 (1877); as G. Pisum in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 138 (1877), F. W. Alg. 247 (1887); as G. parvula in Wolle, Rabenh. Alg. 2539 (1878); as Rivularia Pisum in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 284 (1910) in part; as R. natans in Tilden, ibid. 285 (1910). Scytonemataceae FREMYELLA diplosiphon (Born. & Flah.), comb. nov. Micro- chaete diplosiphon Gom. ex Born. & Flah., Ann. Sci. Nat. VII Bot. 5: 84 (1887); Gomont, Bull. Soc. Bot. France 32: 211 (1885).— J. DeToni in Noter. Nomencl. Algol. VIII (1936) has pointed out that the generic name Michrochaete was used to designate certain phanerogamous plants before it was proposed for a similar group of Myxophyceae. One collection: PENNSYLVANIA: pump trough (D, P). References: as Mastigonemaparadoxum in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 184 (1877), in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 273 (1910). WOLLE'S FILAMENTOUS MYXOPHYCEAE 33 TOLYPOTHRIX LANATA (Desv.) Wartm. ex Born. & Flah., ibid. 5: 120 (1887). T. bombycina Wolle sp. nov., Bull. Torr. Club 7: 44 (1880).— Specimens seen: NEW JERSEY: Lake Hopatcong, 1879 (TYPE of T. bombycina, P; isotype, D). PENNSYLVANIA: on Conomit- rium, July 1876 (F, P); with Gloeotrichia Pisum on culms of Sagit- taria (P); stagnant water, Sept. 1878 (U); 'Calothrix mirabilis' (U). References: as T. muscicola in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 139 (1877), F. W. Alg. 264 (1887) in part; as Plectonema mirabile in Wolle, ibid. 266 (1887) in part; as Tolypothrix lanata in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 230 (1910) in part. TOLYPOTHRIX TENUIS Kiitz. ex Born. & Flah., ibid. 5: 122 (1887). T. rupestris Wolle, F. W. Alg. 265 (1887), Bull. Torr. Club 6: 185 (1877); Geitler, Rabenh. Krypt.-Fl. 14: 733 (1932).— As Prof. Set- chell has already pointed out in Erythea 4: 193 (1896) the original material of T. rupestris cannot be separated from other specimens of T. tennis. Geitler (ibid.) has shown that a few of the filaments are broader than is usual in T. tennis; it appears to me that the method of preparation of the specimens is responsible for such anomalies. The habit of the filaments in the masses bears little resemblance to that of species of Hassallia with which Geitler has placed T. rupestris. Setchell (ibid.) has referred part of Wolle's T. muscicola to T. tennis. Specimens seen: MASSACHUSETTS: Woods Hole, W. G. Farlow (P). NEW JERSEY: 'T. Aegagropila' (N). PENNSYLVANIA: Delaware Wa- ter Gap, July 1878 (TYPE of T. rupestris, P; isotypes, D, N, 0, U); in rupibus madore continuo irroratis, Delaware Water Gap, July 1879 (Rabenh. Alg. 2573, N); T. Aegagropila' (D, N, O, P); beech woods, July 1878 (D, P); 'Lehigh also Hopedale' (N). References: as T. Bulnheimii in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 185 (1877); as T. rupestris in Wolle, Rabenh. Alg. 2573 (1879), in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 234 (1910); as T. Aegagropila in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 7: 44 (1880), F. W. Alg. 263 (1887), Britton Final Rep. Geol. N. J. 2: 605 (1889); as T. tennis in Setchell, loc. cit. (1896). HASSALLIA BYSSOIDEA (Berk.) Hass. ex Born. & Flah., Ann. Sci. Nat. VII Bot. 5: 116 (1887). Anabaena cupressaphila Wolle ex Forti, Syll. Myxophyc. 456 (1907); Wolle, F. W. Alg. 288 (1887). Tolypo- thrix byssoidea Kirchn. ex Forti, Syll. Myxophyc. 561 (1907); Kirchn. (the name ineffectively published), Schizophyc. 80 (1900). Scyto- nema (Petalonema) junipericola Farlow,1 Phyc. Bor.-Amer. 16: 756 1 The original material of this species, BERMUDA: 'Fairyland', W. G. Farlow, Jan. 1900 (TYPE, F; isotypes in Phyc. Bor.-Amer. 756, D, FM, N, T), is to be recognized at once as Hassallia byssoidea. In parts of the masses, the filaments have the usual aspect of this species; in other parts, the sheaths are somewhat gelatinized and the divergent lamellation is conspicuous. Geitler, Rabenh. Krypt.- Fl. 14: 797 (1932), has suggested that Scytonema junipericola is related to S. mirabile Born. (S. figuratum of this paper); a glance at material of the two, how- ever, should show that such an idea is untenable. 34 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY— BOTANY, VOL. 20 (1900).- — The TYPE of Anabaena cupressaphila is a mass of hormogonia of Hassallia byssoidea. Here also belongs, possibly, Wolle's report of Hapalosiphon byssoideus in F. W. Alg. 276. Specimens seen: NEW JERSEY : on red cedar, Closter (TYPE of Anabaena cupressaphila, P). PENNSYLVANIA: old wood, wet places (D, P); moist log at canal lock (P). SOUTH CAROLINA: on Nyssa, Aiken, Ravenel 137 (F); on old pine board, Aiken, Ravenel 201, 334 (F, P); trunks of trees, Aiken, Ravenel (N). GEORGIA: on pine boards and on Juniperus, Ravenel 387, 404 (F). TEXAS: trunks of trees, Houston, Ravenel (N). References: as Trichormus incurvus in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 183 (1877); as Scytonema truncicola in Wolle, ibid. 6: 284 (1879), Amer. Quart. Microsc. Journ. 1: 207 (1879); as S. cortex f. Ravenelii in Wolle, F. W. Alg. 257 (1887) as to speci- mens, not as to name-bearing synonym?; as Tolypothrix truncicola in Wolle, ibid. 266 (1887); as Sirosiphon lignicola in Wolle, ibid. 273 (1887) in part; as Anabaena cupressaphila in Wolle, Britton Final Rep. Geol. N. J. 2: 607 (1889), in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 195 (1910); as A. flos-aquae in Tilden, ibid. 189 (1910) in part; as Tolypothrix byssoidea in Tilden, ibid. 233 (1910). DIPLOCOLON HEPPII Nag. ex Born. & Flah., ibid. 5: 129 (1887). Scytonema Heppii Wolle ex Forti pro. synon., Syll. Myxophyc. 561 (1907); Wolle, F. W. Alg. 260 (1887), as to name-bearing synonym, not as to specimens. — Kossinskaja, Not. Syst. Crypt. Hort. Bot. Prin- cip. URSS 4: 64-74 (1926), has endeavored to show that this species is really a growth form of Scytonema crustaceum var. incrustans. It is unfortunate that in making observations this author did not study also Hepp's isotypic specimens distributed in Rabenh. Alg. 468 and material of S. crustaceum cited by Bornet & Flahault. In the speci- mens treated by the monographers and those cited in the present paper, I am given the impression that the scytonematoid filaments of the two species are easily distinguished by the nature of the lamella- tion of the sheaths, as indicated in Bornet & Flahault's descriptions. It would be hazardous to suggest a union of the two species, as both Kossinskaja (ibid.) and Geitler, Rabenh. Krypt.-Fl. 14: 782 (1932), have done, at least upon the basis of the few collections now on file in herbaria. Specimens seen: NEW YORK: Niagara, Aug. 1876 (F, P). References: as Diplocolon Heppii in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 139 (1877), in Setchell, Erythea 4: 193 (1896), in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 236 (1910) in part, in Smith, Freshw. Alg. U. S. 97 (1933) in part. SCYTONEMA ALATUM (Berk.) Borzi ex Born. & Flah., Ann. Sci. Nat. VII Bot. 5: 110 (1887). Petalonema alatum Berk, ex Born. & Flah. pro. synon., loc. cit. (1887). — Specimens seen: NEW YORK: Niagara, Aug. 1876 (F, P). References: as Scytonema alatum in Setchell, Erythea 4: 193 (1896), in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 225 (1910); as Petalonema alatum in Wolle, F. W. Alg. 267 (1887). WOLLE'S FILAMENTOUS MYXOPHYCEAE 35 SCYTONEMA DENSUM (A. Br.) Born. & Flah., ibid. 5: 109 (1887). S. evanescens Gardn.,1 Mem. New York Bot. Card. 7: 71 (1927). Petalonema densum Mig. ex Geitler, Rabenh. Krypt.-Fl. 14: 793 (1932). — Specimens seen: NEW YORK: wet moss and wood, old boards, Niagara, Aug. 1876 (F, P). References: as Scytonema tolypotrichoides in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 139 (1877) in part, F. W. Alg. 250 (1887); as Symphyosiphon incrustans in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 139 (1877) in part; as S. Contarenii in Wolle, loc. cit. (1877); as Scytonema densum in Setchell, Erythea 4: 191 (1896), in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 227 (1910). SCYTONEMA CRUSTACEUM (Ag.) Born. & Flah., ibid. 5: 106 (1887). S. crustaceum var. incrustans (Kiitz.) Born. & Flah., ibid. 5: 107 (1887). S. mirabile Wolle, F. W. Alg. 255 (1887), Bull. Torr. Club 6: 217 (1878), ibid. 6: 384 (1879), not Born. S. Wolleanum Forti, Syll. Myxophyc. 513 (1907). Petalonema crustaceum Kirchn. ex Forti pro. synon., ibid. 525 (1907); Kirchner (the name ineffectively published), Schizophyc. 79 (1900). — Bornet & Flahault (ibid.) must have made a typographical error in placing Wolle's report of Symphyosiphon incrustans instead of his Scytonema mirabile in synonymy with their S. crustaceum var. incrustans. Setchell in Erythea 4: 191 (1896) pointed out this error long before Forti proposed the superfluous name S. Wolleanum for S. mirabile Wolle instead of for its later homonym, S. mirabile (Dillw.) Born, (see S. figuratum of this paper). Specimens seen: SOUTH CAROLINA: Aiken, Ravenel 109, 351 (F). FLORIDA: Gainesville, Ravenel (TYPE of S. mirabile Wolle, P; isotype, F); Smith, Mar. 1878 (P, U). References: as Schizosiphon cataractae in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 284 (1879); as Scytonema Heppii in Wolle, F. W. Alg. 260 (1887) ; as S. crustaceum var. incrustans in Setchell, loc. cit. (1896), in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 226 (1910); as S. Wolleanum in Tilden, ibid. 221 (1910), in Geitler, Rabenh. Krypt.-Fl. 14: 787 (1932); as Diplocolon Heppii in Tilden, ibid. 236 (1910) in part, in Smith, Freshw. Alg. U. S. 97 (1933) in part. SCYTONEMA MYOCHROUS (Dillw.) Ag. ex Born. & Flah., Ann. Sci. Nat. VII Bot. 5: 104 (1887). S. cataracta Wood ex Born. & Flah. pro. synon., ibid. 5: 105 (1887); Wood, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 11: 129 (1869). S. Brandegeei Wolle ex Born. & Flah. sp. inquir., ibid. 5: 111 (1887); Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 184 (1877).— Wolle described the filaments of S. Brandegeei as 38-42 n in diameter, but I find none 1 The TYPE of S. evanescens in the New York Botanical Garden, PUERTO RICO: on limestone, Arecibo to Utuado, Wille 1^82, should without hesitation be referred to S. densum in spite of Geitler's suggestion in Rabenh. Krypt.-Fl. 14: 785 (1932) that S. evanescens is an ecological or growth form of S. Myochrous. However, other specimens cited with Gardner's description are lichenized masses of S. Myochrous. 36 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — BOTANY, VOL. 20 in the original material exceeding 35 ju in diameter. Specimens seen : NEW YORK: Niagara, Aug. 1876 (F, P; Rabenh. Alg. 2492, N). NEW JERSEY: with S. figuratum, Morris Pond (P). PENNSYLVANIA: Beth- lehem, 1874, 1875 (F); moist rocks, 1877 (N, U); Rockdale, 1883 (P). COLORADO: wet rocks (TYPE of S. Brandegeei, P, isotype, N). References: as S. Hegetschweileri in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 139 (1877) in part, ibid. 6: 284 (1879); as S. cataracta in Wolle, Rabenh. Alg. 2492 (1877) in part, F. W. Alg. 252 (1887); as S. Myochrous in Wolle, loc. cit. (1887), Britton Final Rep. Geol. N. J. 2: 605 (1889), in Setchell, Erythea 4: 192 (1896), in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1:224(1910). SCYTONEMA FIGURATUM Ag. ex Born. & Flah., ibid. 5: 101 (1887). S. Austinii Wood ex Born. & Flah. sp. inquir., ibid. 5: 111 (1887); Wood, Smiths. Contrib. Knowl. 241: 58 (1872). Symphyosiphon Austinii Wood apud Wolle, F. W. Alg. 261 (1887). Scytonema gracile var. tolypotrichoides Wittr. ex Born. & Flah. sp. inquir., loc. cit. (1887); Wolle in Wittr. & Nordst. Alg. exs. 8: 389 (1880), Bull. Torr. Club. 8: 38 (1881). S. mirabile Born., Bull. Soc. Bot. France 36: 155 (1889), not Wolle. — See notes under S. crustaceum of this paper. The isotype of S. Austinii cited here bears the note in Francis Wolle's handwriting: "Same as sent to Dr. Wood" [by C. F. Austin]. Speci- mens seen: NEW YORK: Niagara, 1876 (P; Rabenh. Alg. 2492, N). NEW JERSEY: Morris Pond, July 1879 (TYPE of S. gracile var. tolypo- trichoides, Wittr. & Nordst. Alg. exs. 389, PW; isotype, N); with Stigonema ocellatum, old path, Closter, Nov. 1877 (P). PENNSYL- VANIA: Bethlehem (F). NORTH CAROLINA: Warren Springs, French Broad River, Smith, Aug. 1880 (U). SOUTH CAROLINA: Aiken, on the ground, Ravenel 545 (PW), logs under water, Ravenel 472, 475 (F, PW), damp face of clay cliff, Ravenel 82 (BM), wet timber at Benton's old mill, Ravenel 111, 113 (BM). FLORIDA: Smith, Mar. 1878 (U). References: as S. Hegetschweileri in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 139 (1877) in part; as S. cataracta in Wolle, Rabenh. Alg. 2492 (1877) in part; as S. Notarisii in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 284 (1879); as S. polymorphism in Wolle, loc. cit. (1879), F. W. Alg. 255 (1887) in part; as S. turfosum in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 284 (1879), Amer. Quart. Microsc. Journ. 1: 207 (1879), F. W. Alg. 253 (1887); as S. simplex in Wolle, ibid. 259 (1887), in Tilden, Minn. Alg. 1: 229 (1910); as S. tolypotrichoides in Wolle, Britton Final Rep. Geol. N. J. 2: 604 (1889), in Setchell, Erythea 4: 192 (1896), in Tilden, ibid. 222 (1910); as S. mirabile in Setchell, ibid. 4: 193 (1896), in Tilden, loc. cit. in part (1910); as S. Austinii in Tilden, ibid. 220 (1910), in Geitler, Rabenh. Krypt.-Fl. 14: 759 (1932). SCYTONEMA TOLYPOTRICHOIDES Kiitz. ex Born. & Flah., ibid. 5: 100 (1887). — This species passes under the name S. Archangelii in recent North American phycological literature. Specimens seen: NEW JERSEY: 'S. calotrichoides' (U); pond (0); Browns Mills, 1879 WOLLE'S FILAMENTOUS MYXOPHYCEAE 37 (D, P). MARYLAND: Falls of Deep Creek, Garrett County, Smith, July 1878 (P). FLORIDA: Smith, Mar. 1878 (P, U). References: as Schizosiphon Meneghinianus in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 284 (1879); as Calothrix mirabilis in Wolle, ibid. 6: 285 (1879); as C. Meneghiniana in Wolle, F. W. Alg. 238 (1887); as Scytonema calotrichoides f. natans in Wolle, ibid. 251 (1887); as S. natans in Wolle, ibid. 252 (1887), Britton Final Rep. Geol. N. J. 2: 605 (1889); as Plectonema mirabile in Wolle, F. W. Alg. 266 (1887) in part; as Scytonema calotrichoides of Wolle, Britton Final Rep. Geol. N. J. 2: 605 (1889); as S. tolypotrichoides in Drouet, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Bot. Ser. 20: 7 (1939); as Dichothrix Meneghiniana in Tilden, ibid. 277 (1910) in part. SCYTONEMA HOFMANNII Ag. ex Born. & Flah., Ann. Sci. Nat. VII Bot. 5: 97 (1887). S. cortex Wood ex Born. & Flah. pro. synon., ibid. 98 (1887); Wood, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 11: 130 (1869). Sirosiphon scytonematoides Wood ex Born. & Flah. pro. synon., ibid. 117 (1887); Wood, ibid. 134 (1869). Scytonema cortex f. corrugatum Wolle, F. W. Alg. 257 (1887). S. cortex f. brunneum Wolle, ibid. 258 (1887). S. Hofmannii f. brunneum Wolle apud Forti, Syll. Myxophyc. 515 (1907). — The many specimens in the Farlow Herbarium referred by Wood and Ravenel to Sirosiphon scytonematoides consist of the same types of swollen and lichenized filaments as those which occur in the material labeled Scytonema cortex f . corrugatum by Wolle. Bornet & Flahault (ibid.), however, have placed Wood's Sirosiphon scytone- matoides in synonymy with their Hassallia byssoidea. In the present study, which has involved an examination of a large series of this lichenized form from southern United States, the West Indies, and Central America, it has seemed more reasonable to refer it to Scy- tonema Hofmannii. Specimens seen: NEW YORK: Haverstraw, Austin, Oct. 1869 (P); Niagara, Aug. 1876 (P). NEW JERSEY: on stones in damp woods, Closter, Austin (P). SOUTH CAROLINA: on bark of Platanus occidentalis, Ravenel 47 (ISOTYPE of Scytonema cortex, F); Aiken, Ravenel 137 (F), 211 (BM), 222, 21+1 (F), clay cliffs, Ravenel 218 (F). GEORGIA: bark, red cedar, Ravenel, Apr. 1878 (P); on Juniperus, Darien, Ravenel 292, 322, (F) ; on oak, Darien, Ravenel 306 (F). FLORIDA: St. Lucian River, Smith, Mar. 1878 (P); on Myrica cerifera, Ravenel 10 (ISOTYPE of Sirosiphon scytonematoides, P), 37 (BM); Smith, Mar. 1878 (TYPE of Scytonema cortex f. corrugatum, P; isotype, U). References: as S. chrysochlorum in Wolle, Bull. Torr. Club 6: 139 (1877) in part; as S. cortex var. corrugatum 'var. nov.' in Wolle, ibid. 6: 284 (1879); as S. cortex var. brunneum 'var. nov.' in Wolle, loc. cit. (1879); as