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POLYSiphomja paniculata Mont. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot.
II. 18: 254. 1842; Voy. Bonite, Bot. Crypt. 91.
pl. 143. f- 2. 1846. K�tz. Tab. Phyc. 13:15.
P­- 45 ? /ţ c~e. 1863
Polysiphonia siricta? Mont. Fl. Boliv. 18. 1839. Not P. stricta
(Dillw.) Grev.; Hook. Brit.. Fl. 21: 329. 1833.
Polysiphonia commutata Endl. Gen. Pl. Suppl. 3: 45. 1843. Not
P. commutata K�tz. Phyc. Gen. 428. 1843.
Polysiphonia Qrbigniana K�tz. Sp. Alg. 820. 1849.
On Gigartina Chauvinii offered for sale in the market Of ś.ijiia,
Jan. 14, 1907, Coker 26 p.p.', in lagoon at the mouth of the itio
Rimac, region of Callao, February 4, 1907, Coker 51 p.p.", dre4ged
on muddy bottom in Anc˘n Bay, February 13, 1907, Coker 90
p.p.; with Caulerpa flagelUformis ligulata and Polysiphonia s?p.,
Lobos de Afuera, Mar. 18, 1907, Coker 126 p.p.', in a lagoon at La
Puntilla, Bay of Paracas, June 29, 1907, Coker 09619 p.p.
This species appears to have been rarely met with since its
original collection on the shores of Peru by d?Orbigny and. by
Gaudichaud, but it has been reported frorrˇ /Paita and from the
Island of San Lorenzopy PiccSne.* The 9-11 pericentral siphons
are often twisted =fc>r spirally disposed, as described by Mont gne'.
'The ?Polysiphonia stricta?? of Montagne?s Florula Boliviensis
has been given new^names by Endlicher and by K�tzing, appar-
ently on the strength of Montagne?s description without an
examination of his plan# Montagne?s doubtful reference of the
plant to the 4-siphoned M. stricta, together with his description of
the ?articuli? as ?venis quatuor striati,? has naturally led sub-
sequent writers to suppose'-?that the plant belonged with the
oligosiphonous species. However, in Montagne?s original material
of his ?Polysiphonia stricta?" (Callao, d?Orbigny), which we h^e
been permitted to examine through the courtesy of M.-, Hariot,
we find only a 9?io-siphon'ed plant, aside from the associated
4-siphoned Streblocladia camptoclada, and we think the ?venis
quatuor striati? of Montagne?s description was intended to apply
only to the superficial appearance of a segment as ordinarily
observed under the microscope. We cannot see that the plant
* Alg. Vettor Pisani 83. 1886.
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differs from the Polysiphonia paniculata, described by Montagne
three years later from Peruvian material collected by Gaudichaud.
The species occurs also in Chile, where it was collected by
W. H. Harvey, according to a specimen placed with P. Orbigniana
in herb. Montagne.
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Polysiphonia paniculata Mont.
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