322 THE ESSEX NATURALIST Dictyosiphonales Punctariaceae Punctaria plantaginea (Roth.) Grev. Harwich, Batters (1894). Scytosiphonales Scytosiphonaceae Petalonia filliformis (Batt.) Kunze. Clacton, Batters (1894). Scytosiphon lomentarius (Lyngb.) Link. Harwich, Batters (1894). Cutleriales Cutleriaceae Cutleria multifida (Sm.) Grev. Harwich, Batters (1894). Laminariales Chordariaceae Chorda filum (L.) Stackh. Harwich Harbour, Batters (1894); River Blackwater (Mersea Quarters, Cocum Hills, Colne Point), G.M.M., 1963. Laminariaceae Laminaria hyperborea (Gunn.) Foslie. Harwich, G.M.M., 1964. Laminaria saccharina (L.) Lamour. Harwich, Blackwater Estuary, Clacton, Batters (1894); Blackwater Estuary (Osea Island, Cocum Hills, Colne Point, Mersea, Nass End Beacon), Harwich, G.M.M., 1963-64. Sphacelariales Sphaleriaceae Sphacelaria plumigera Holm. Harwich, Dovercourt, Batters (1894). Sphacelaria plumosa Lyngb. River Blackwater (St. Osyth, Cocum Hills, Stoney Point, Mersea Shore), Harwich, G.M.M., 1963-64. Stypocaulaceae Halopteris scoparia (L.) Sauv. Walton, Batters (1894), as Stypo- caulon scoparium. Cladostephus spongiosus (Huds.) C. Ag. Felixstowe, Harwich, Batters (1894); Osea Island, Clacton, G.M.M., 1964. Dictyotales Dictyotaceae Dictyota dichotoma (Huds.) Lamour. Walton, Felixstowe, Batters (1894). Blackwater Estuary, G.M.M., 1963-64. Padina pavonia (L.) Lamour. Harwich, Batters (1894). Taonia automaria (Woodw.) J. Ag. Felixstowe, Batters (1894). Fucales Fucaceae Ascophyllum nodosum (L.) Le Jol. Harwich, Blackwater Estuary, Dovercourt and Clacton, Batters (1894); Blackwater Estuary (f. scorpiodes), Baker and Bohling (1915); River Blackwater, Osea Island (f. scorpiodes), G.M.M., 1963-64. Fucus ceranoides L. Blackwater Estuary, Batters (1894); River Blackwater, G.M.M., 1963, 1964.