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The whole plant is also rather largersthan JV. montana. From JN. 
Llankinshipii Allen, it differs in the smaller nucleus, which is dif- 
ferently sculptured and by the larger antheridia. The general size 
and appearance of the plant resembless V. Blankinshipii; in that 
plant, however, the oogonia are single, aggregated in occidental. 
Collected by Mr. Blankinship, in California, Lake county, 
June, 1893. : 
Plate 187, figs. 1 and 2, male and female plants, natural size 
(male plants more diffuse ; female terminals longer); figs. 3 and 
4 X 25, fig. 5, nucleus X 50. 
Plate 188. To illustrate the description of JV. Japomca Allen, 
BULLETIN, vol. 20, page 120. Fig. 1, plant natural size; figs. 2, 
3,4 and § X 25; fig. 6, coronula of sporophydium, showing the 
elongated terminal cells, separated X 50; fig. 7 nucleus X 50; 
fig. 8 surface of same, covered with minute conical spines highly 
Magnified, ; ) 
CHARA DEPAUPERATA SP. nov. 
Chara diplostephana, triplosticha, gymnopus, monoica—con- 
Juncta, podosteira. 
Plant small, condensed, but about half a cm. in height ; stems 
armed with numerous spines, which are about as long as the 
diameter of the stem; stipules large, comparatively longer than 
€ basal node of the leaf ; leaves of 5 to 7 nodes, lowest segment 
naked, .480 long, .315 broad, second segment corticated, .610 
long, -290 broad, the remaining segments successively shorter and 
smaller ; the terminal, naked tip short and conical; the whole 
leaf about 2.4mm. long, the lowest node sterile; bracts verticillate, 
€ anterior bracts somewhat longer than the sporophydium, the oe 
Posterior but little shorter; sporophydium large, coronula’ spread- 
ng, short; nucleus (spore), very large for the size of the plant, 
'-660 long, ‘650 broad (.635  .440), with eleven or twelve ridges, : 
not prominent. 
This species, collected near Nassau, N. P. (West Indies), by 
the late Dr, Northrop, seems to be allied to Ch. Ceylonica Willd. 
But one collection of a very few specimens was made. Plate 192. 
