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have apparently the same species from Choras on the Choor Mountain. Several 
species have been obtained by Drs. Hamilton and Wallich from the Himalayas, and 
nearly the same species by myself, from those mountains more to the north-west, as 
L. tenellum, (L. semicordatum and subdiaphanum, Wall. Cat. 126, and 136) ; +L. subuli- 
Solium, Cat. No. 114, from Nepal, I have from Mussooree. From Kunawur I have 
LL. Kunawurense, nob., which is allied to L. sanguinolentum, a species found near Lake 
Baical, and on the wall of China. 
202. CHARACES. 
From the obscure nature of the reproductive organs of the genera Chara, and 
Nitella, which form this order, great uncertainty has prevailed among botanists respect- 
ing its location in a natural series. Chara was first placed by Linneus among Cryp- 
-togamic, and then among Phenogamic plants. The same difference of opinion has 
continued among distinguished botanists of the present day, though the Characee are 
now generally treated of as a distinct order, and placed near Mosses and Alge. The 
two genera constituting the order are found in water, often stagnant, sometimes salt, 
in all parts of the world. Several species of Chara have been discovered in India, 
both in the south and north, and one in Nepal; but, as far as an opinion can be formed 
from specimens in herbaria, the species appear to be in general distinct in the different 
parts of India. C. zeylanica, which is found near Tranquebar, appears, however, with 
setosa and corallina, to be the species most widely diffused. C. filamentosa, foliolosa, and 
polyphylla, are other species so named in Dr. Rottler’s Herbarium, while C. verticillata, 
involucrata, and furcata, are described by Dr. Roxburgh as indigenous in Bengal. Of 
the species in the E. Indian Herbarium, C. seylanica,, 5186 B. and C., of the Madras 
Herbarium, and from Sadras, are the same; but 5186, A., found by Dr. Hamilton 
near Patna, is a distinct species, perhaps a variety of C. zeylanica; but the specimens 
are mixed with the Zannichellia, already mentioned under Fluviales. C. FSetida, Hb. 
Ham., from Bangri, is a very elegant species. C. spiralis and C. corallina, Wall. Cat. 
No. 5188 and 5189, are from the same herbarium and similar locality; C. hispida, 
Wall. Cat. No. 5189, or at least the plant so labelled, is Caulinia indica ; while the plant 
so named in the Cat. No. 5183, is a Chara, in consequence, probably, of an inter- 
change of the tickets of the two plants. C. polyclades is a species described by Mr. 
Don from Nepal: two other species were obtained by myself, from the north of India ; 
but the identity of these different species, mentioned as Indian, can only be determined 
by careful examination of perfect specimens. | 
203. MUSCI. 
Musci, or Mosses, are familiarly known, though the term is much more extensively 
applied in popular, than in scientific language. They often escape notice from their 
diminutive size, but growing as they usually do together, numbers, as in the case of 
Corals, amply compensate for their individual want of bulk, when they are: seen: 
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