Cham.] CHARACEiE. 247 



of tlie whorls subulate, fertile ones with many short ramuli or 

 bractese of which 3 — 4 are longer than the nucnle and globule 

 that they accompany. — a. major ; larger, stems spinulose. C. 

 hispida, Li?m.—E. Bot. t. 463. E. FL v I. p. 7. Ag. Syst. 

 AJg. p. 128. — (3. gracilis ; smaller, spinules obsolete. C. his- 

 pida, [3. Ag. Syst. Alg. p. 128. E. Fl. v.l.p.7. 



Ditches, especially in turfy bogs and lakes. — 0. Lancing, Sussex. 



V. Borrer. Southport, Lancashire and Anglesey Mr. W. Wilson. 

 Near Croft, Yorkshire, liev. J. DaUon. — In general this plant is thickly 

 incrustedj but in a specimen gathered by Mr. Wilson in Cheshire and 

 tallying with the figure in E.^Bot., the incrustation is scarcely percep- 

 tible. Independent of this covering, the smaller variety very much 

 resembles a large state of C vulgaris, and the a., a gigantic C. eupera. 

 Indeed, I am sometimes of opinion that all our known Chora may.be 

 referred to one or other of 2 species, Cfcxilis, the type of the first divi- 

 sion, and C. vulgaris, the type of the 2d; and that, like almost all aquatic 

 plants, they are liable to great variation, dependant upon the soil, depth 

 and movement of thewater,and a variety of other circumstances. Agardh 

 enumerates 24- species as natives of Europe, and most of them of the 

 northern part of it; nearly the whole of which might probably be found in 

 the waters of our own country, if carefully investigated. 



