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and ramification, and elongated teeth of the sheaths, and the 
apiculus to the spikes be considered, it cannot be confounded 
with any other of our native species. 
In Ireland, likewise, Mr. D. Moore, of the Glasnevin 
Botanical Garden, has been equally fortunate among the 
Chare as Mr. Whitla has proved to be among the Equiseta; 
for in a recent botanical excursion (in August 1841), his 
researches were rewarded, as they have often been before by 
the discovery of a most remarkable species of Chara, which 
proves to be the— 
C. latifolia ; caulibus spongiosis scabriusculis, ramulis com- 
planatis basi nudis, articulis foliosis, foliis oblongis planis, 
baccis nudis sessilibus.  * Willd. in Mag. der Ges. Nat. 
Freunde, B. 3.” 
Willdenow and Meyer, in Linnea, v. 2. p. 80, speak of it 
as inhabiting waters near Berlin, whence we possess authentic 
specimens. The great size, and as Mr. Moore says, the 
semi-transparency of its articulations readily distinguish this 
species. Together with recent specimens, Mr. Moore was so 
obliging as to communicate the following accompanying re- 
marks, 
“This fine species of Chara, which I have no hesitation in 
stating to be new to Britain, occurred in great abundance in 
Belvidere Lake, Co. Westmeath, where I collected it in 
August last. The great size and semi-pellucid appearance at 
once struck me as remarkable. The main branches are 
striated and covered with raised rough points, as are the 
first joints of the whorled ramuli, while the remaining por- 
tion consists only of one pellucid tube, which is thicker than 
the lower joint, and ends in a sharp point. The branches of 
the whorls are again beset with smaller ramuli (not bractez), 
in which respect it differs from all our species in the opaque 
division, I regret I could not find the species in fruit ; 
neither globule nor nucule was present ; though I examined 
undreds of specimens in various parts of the lake, where it 
sometimes covered the bottom to the extent of many square 
perches ; and, what was singular enough, all the other species 
in the opaque division occurred abundantly in the same lake, 
