Chara. MONOECIA MONANDRIA, 563 
Young shoots densely clothed with thick, soft, appressed, 
white hairs. Leaves in general opposite, petioled, oblong, 
and oblong cuneate, acute, serrate, above smooth, but hard, 
downy underneath, and elegantly reticulated with numerous, 
soft, hairy veins, and a deep green, smooth gland in the axills, 
from two to twelve inches long, one of the pair is always 
smaller than the other, and when single often oblique as in 
Begonia, Petiolesround, clothed with appressed pubescence, 
in each side of their insertion is a green gland. Stipules within 
the leaves, caducous. Fruit for the most part in pairs, in ra- 
dical withering racemes, and frequently of great length, with 
their apices penetrating the earth. In their native soil the 
whole raceme, and fruit are often entirely under ground ; also 
found single or in pairs on the trunk and branches, though 
less frequently than on the root. They are generally about 
the size of a large nutmeg, obovate, very hairy ; the mouth 
shut with numerous scales, the exterior ones glandular and 
more remote ; several obscure, equi-distant ridges run from 
the umbilicus toward the base. Calyx of the fruit of three- 
minute scales. Male corollets monandrous. 
In habit this plant is very much like F, a but 
the inflorescence is very different. 
CHARA. 
Maile calyx none. Corol none. Anthers solitary under 
the germ. Female calyx four-leaved, Corol none. Stigma 
from three to five-cleft, Nut spiral, many-seeded. 
1. C, verticillata, Roxb. . 
Joints of the stems and branches somewhat » prickly. 
Leaves verticelled, ten or twelve-jointed, with flowers on the 
two or three lower cone Calyx of the other _— abor- 
tive. : 
A native of India, oder’ it grows in standing sweet wate? 
it appears and flowers during both the cold and hot seasons. 
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