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NOTES ON BRITISH CHARAOE^, 1895-1898. 



By H. & J. Groves, F.L.S. 



(Plates 391, 392.) 



In the present instalment of " Notes" we have the pleasure of 

 describing the most interesting addition to our CVirtra-flora for 

 many years past, Nitella Ju/alina, which has recently been discovered 

 in Cornwall by our friend the Rev. G. R. Bullock Webster, who has 

 done such good work among the Characea in the eastern counties. 

 There are also some important extensions of distribution to record, 

 notably Chara connivens from Ireland, and C. canescens from Suffolk 

 and Wexford. As in former years, Mr. R. Lloyd Praeger has 

 furnished us with a very large amount of material, enabling us to 

 fill up many blanks in the Irish counties. Mr. S. M. Macvicar's 

 gatherings in Coll and Tiree have added considerably to our pre- 

 viously scanty records for Mid Ebudes. We are much indebted to 

 the gentlemen already named, and to our other correspondents, who 

 have furnished us with the very numerous specimens, from which 

 the following records are gleaned : — 



Chara fragilis, Desv. — Norfolk W., 1897, G. R. Bullock Webster ; 

 Ayrshire, 1896, A. Somerville; Cantire, 1897, C. E. Salmon; Cork S., 

 1896, R.A. Phillips; Kildare, Meath, and Louth, 1896, R. LI. Praeger, 

 Roscommon, 1896, D. McArdle d R. LI. Praeger. 



Var. BARBATA.— Devon N., 1895, W. P. Hiern; Lincoln S., 1895, 

 Mason S Peacock; Clare, 1896, N. Colgan; Mayo E., 1895, E. S. 

 Marshall. 



Var. cApiLLACEA. — Cambs, 1896, G. R. Bullock Webster; Louth, 

 1896, R. LI. Praeger. 



Var. Hedwigh. — Aberdeen N., 1883, J. W. H. Trail, comm. A. 

 Bennett. 



Var. DELicATULA. — Liucs. N., 1894, Mason d Peacock; Wester- 

 ness, 1895, S. M. Macvicar ; Cantire, 1897, C. E. Salmon: South 

 Ebudes, Islay, 1898, T. F. Gilmour, comm. A. Somerville; Mid 

 Ebudes, 1896, S. M. Macvicar; Meath (1896) and Roscommon 

 (1897), R. LI. Praeger; Tyrone, 1896, Mrs. Leebody, comm. R. LI. 

 Praeger. 



C. CONNIVENS, Braun. — Suffolk E., near Benacre Broad, 1897, 

 G. R. Bullock Webster ; Wexford, lagoon north of Wexford Harbour, 

 1896, E. 8, Marshall. A very interesting addition to the Irish flora. 



C. ASPERA, Willd. — Norfolk W., Fowlmere, Croxton Heath, 1897, 

 G. R. Bullock Webster; Lines. N., Althorpe, 1894, ^'Fowler,'' comm. 

 E. A. Woodruffe Peacock; Mid Ebudes, Coll and Tiree, 1896, S. M. 

 Macvicar. 



Var. suBiNERMis. — Mid Ebudes, Coll, 1896, S. M. Macvicar; 

 Cork S., Tralispeen Bog, near L. Hine, 1896, R. A. PhiVips dJ. G.; 

 Wexford, lagoon north of Wexford Harbour, 1896, E. S. Marshall. 



Having received from time to time a large number of specimens 

 of C. aspera from Ireland, and a few from England, in which the 



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