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in the same locality but about 100 yards northwards of the fii-st pool. The plant 

 was growing in heaps on the boarders of the pool, and was more or less free 

 from the fihimcntous Alga. It is interestini; to observe that both the plants 

 grow in pools about rice fields. The pool also dries up during the months of 

 April and M;iy. This species is not gritty and brittle, indicating absence of 

 any deposit of carbonate of lime. The stem is thinner than that of specimen 

 No. I, delicate in appearance and more frequently branched. The full-grown 

 inter-nodes are comparatively very long and the leaves are shorter in length 

 and less numerous in the whorl than in the Specimen No. I. The reproduc- 

 tive organs are borne on the upper surface of the leaves as in the first speci- 

 men. There were no antheridia on the specimen I collected. Possibly they 

 bud all discharged during the previous night or the plant is dioecious. This 

 point requires confirmation. The Oogonia are similar to those of the first 

 specimen. 



The other species described by Roxburgh differ from this Specimen No. 2. 



Mr. Gregg in his "Text Book of Indian Botany" mentions a plant Charu 



flacidu A. Brauii, as being very common in tanks and jheels in Bengal. 



Either this is the same plant or a different specie.* requires verification, "if 



'• flacida " is indicative of the soft nature of the plaint. I would provisionallv 

 name it Chara flacida. 



VIXAYAK NANABHAI HATE B. Sc 



Wilson College, Bombay, 



June 1909, 



