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the: distribution of thk charack^ 



in irki.and, 



BY H, AND J. GROViJS, F.I<.S. 



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130. Gal way, B., 

 133. Westmeath, 



Chara tomentosa, I^. 



R. Shannon, below Portumna, 1843. ^' Moore. 



Belvidere Lake (L. Ennel), 1841, D. Moore. Coosan 

 Ivough, J 886, R. P. Vowell. L. Derevaragh 

 and I/. Owel, 1892, H. C. Levinge and H. and 

 J.G. 



This is perhaps the most interesting and characteristic of all the Irish 

 Characece, and in the British Isles is apparently confined to Ireland.* 

 All the localities cited above belong to the Shannon drainage, although 

 L- Owel is now used as a reservoir for the Royal Canal. The small 

 form with most of the joints of the branchlets uncoated and much 

 vSwoUen, which was first discovered by Dr. D. Moore, and figured by 

 Hooker as C. latifolia, Willd., is that occurring in rather shallow water 

 with a comparatively hard bottom, but the large well developed form 

 three or four feet high is plentiful in the deeper muddy bays of several 

 of the lakes. We found a very curious slender form in L. Owel. 

 C. to?nentosa is recorded from Sweden, Denmark, Germany (in many 

 places), France (Normandy) Switzerland, Austria, Turkey, Russia, Persia 

 and Algiers. 



113. Kerry, S., 



114- .> N., 

 121. Queen's Co., 



123. Wicklow, 



124. Kildare, - 



125. Dublin, - 



127. Louth, - 



128. Limerick, 



129. Clare, 



130. Gal way, E., 

 133. Westmeath, 

 135. Gal way, W., 

 138. Sligo, - 

 140. Roscommon, 

 145. Armagh, 

 147. Down, 



149. Londonderry, 



C. hisplda, L. 



- Killarney, 1887. R. W. Scully. 



- Near Ventry, 1894. D. M'Ardle. 



- Near Farmhill, 1890, R. W. Scully. 



- Murrough of Wicklow, 1877. D. M'Ardle. 



- Below Athy, 1890. R. W. Scully. 



- Raheny, 1893. R. LI. Praeger. 



- Dundalk, 1883. J. F. Crofts. 



- Near Foynes, 1884. S. A. Stewart. 



- Near Ennis, 1884. S. A. Stewart. 



- L. Derg, 1881. Bolton King. 



- Belvidere L. D. Moore. 



- Roundstone, 1868. C. Bailey. 



- Coolgagh L.ri883. S. A. Stewart 



- L. Ree, 1886. R. M. Barrington. 



- Near Grange, 1892. R. LI. Praeger. 



- Downpatrick, 1891. R. IJ. Praeger. 

 • R. Bann, Coleraine. D. Moore. 



*A curious sterile plant collected in Norfolk, in 1881, by Mr. Arthur 

 Bennett, was referred by Dr. Nordstedt to this species and, at the time, 

 we concurred in this view. It has not so far as we know been collected 

 since, but in the same locality we have found some intermediate plants, 

 which we think may be hybrids, and which in some characters approach 

 closely to Mr. Bennett's specimen though they do not look so much like 

 C. tomentosa. We are, therefore, inclined to doubt whether we were right 

 in recording the Norfolk locality for the species. 



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