. Algae of Northwestern America. Algae; Algae; Algae. ALGLE OF NORTHWESTERN AMERICA. INTRODUCTION. No account of any completeness, or of pretension towards com- pleteness, of the alga? of the northwestern coast of North America has ever been published. Various accounts have been written and odd references have been made in general and special works, but nothing- which has brought together all the available mater- ials. We have been at work for some time trying to obtain siieh a knowledge as to warrant the attempt, and in the following pages we shall try to bring together all that is known to u
. Algae of Northwestern America. Algae; Algae; Algae. ALGLE OF NORTHWESTERN AMERICA. INTRODUCTION. No account of any completeness, or of pretension towards com- pleteness, of the alga? of the northwestern coast of North America has ever been published. Various accounts have been written and odd references have been made in general and special works, but nothing- which has brought together all the available mater- ials. We have been at work for some time trying to obtain siieh a knowledge as to warrant the attempt, and in the following pages we shall try to bring together all that is known to us, either from specimens or from the literature, of the algae of the region known as the Northwest Coast. Unfortunately, the spec- imens from which the earlier accounts are drawn, are all pre- served, as many as still survive, in various European herbaria and are. as yet, inaccessible to us. We have tried, however, to make full use of such study as has been made of these in the later days and published or communicated to us. While we have tried to discuss, or at least to mention, every alga credited to our territory, we have laid the greatest stress upon the results of our own studies in the field and upon specimens communicated to us, or otherwise accessible. This account, then, represents largely our own experience in attempting to obtain a knowledge of this algal flora. GEOGRAPHY. The limits set for this account, from the geographical point of view, range from Cape Flattery at the northwest- ern corner of the State of Washington, northward along the coast to the region of Kotzebue Sound on the Arctic coast of Alaska. This general region is chosen for several reasons of algal distribution. The study of the alga? of the entire western coast of North America has made it fairly plain that there are four, or possibly five regions of algal growth on the western [1671. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for rea
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