MONANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Chara. 7 



2. C. hispida. Prickly Chara. 



Furrowed. Whorled branches tapering, with internal par- 

 titions. Bracteas whorled. Prickles on the stem bristly, 

 deflexed. 



C. hispida. Linn. Sp. PL 1624. mild. v. 4. 185. Fl. Br. 5. 



Engl. Bot. v. 7. t. 463. Hook. Scot. p. 2. 109. Ft. Dan. t. 154. 

 C. n. 1682. Hall. Hist. v. 3. 4. 

 C. major, caulibus spinosis. Vaill. Mem. de V Ac. des Sc.for 1719. 



18. t.3.f. 3. Raii Syn. [32. 

 /3. C. major subcinerea fragilis. Vaill. ibid. 18. Raii Syn. 132. 

 C. tomentosa. Huds. 398. Sibih. 2. 

 C. n. 1683. Hall. Hist, u.3.4. 

 Equisetum majus subcinereum, aquis immersum. Moris, v. 3. 



621. sect. 15. L4./.9. 



In ditches, pools, and clay-pits. 



Annual. July, August. 



Differs from the last chiefly in its prickly stem, and more numerous 

 bracteas, which form whorls round the branches. It is often, in 

 like manner, incrusted. /3, in Bobart's herbarium at Oxford, 

 bears prickles under the upper flowering-branches only, but has 

 no other distinctive mark ; nor is it C. tomentosa of Linnaeus. 



3. C flexilis. Smooth Chara. 



Smooth, transparent, without prickles. Whorled branches 

 cylindrical, blunt, with a minute point, no internal par- 

 titions ; some cloven. Bracteas none. 



C. flexilis. Linn. Sp. PL 1624. Willd. v. 4. 187. FL Br. 6. Engl. 



Bot. v.\5.t. 1070. Hook. Scot. p. 2. 109. 

 C. n. 1684. Hall. Hist. v. 3. 4. 

 C. translucens minor flexilis. Vaill. Mem. de V Ac. des Sc.for 1719. 



18. t. 3.f. 9. DHL in Raii Syn. 133. 

 C. inermis pellucida. Schmid. Ic. 53. £.14. 



In ditches, ponds, and rivers. 



First observed by Buddie, in ponds at Henley, 4 miles north of 

 Ipswich. Found since by Mr. D. Turner, near Yarmouth ; the 

 Rev. E.Williams, in Berrington pool, Shropshire -, and the Rev. 

 Dr. Abbot, in the river at Bedford. 



Annual. April — August. 



Slender, quite smooth, naked, green and pellucid. Whorled 

 branches either undivided, forked, or three-cleft. Anth. at the 

 forks of these branches, chiefly the upper ones, naked, solitary, 

 dull red, with numerous minute cracks. Germ, either adjoining 

 to the anther, sometimes in pairs \ or in similar situations on a 

 separate plant. 



