charace^e. 195 



Section II.-TOLYPELLOPSIS. Leonhardl (CHARGE 

 ASTEPHAN^]. A. Braun.) 



Internodes of the stem pellucid, naked, without a covering of parallel 

 cortical cells, and with the stipule-cells at the base of each whorl of 

 branchlets rudimentary or absent. [Dioecious. Globules at the nodes 

 of the branchlets, between the bracts, solitary or in pairs.] Nucules 

 [at the nodes of the branchlets, solitary (always ?),] with a persistent 

 crown of 5 very minute cells. 



SPECIES II.— C HARA STELLIGERA. Bauer* 



Plate 1910. 



Braun, Babenh. & Stiz. Char. Europ. Exsicc. Nos. 1, 34. 



Nordst. & Wahlst. Char. Scand. Exsicc. Nos. 49a, 49b. 



Chara obtusa, Desv. in Loisel. Deslongch. Notice sur les plantes a. ajouter a, la Flore de 



France, p. 136. H. & J. Groves in Journ. Bot. 1881, p. 1, t. 216. 

 C. stelligera, "Bauer in Moessler's Handb. der Gewach. ed. 2, p. 1595." Bischoff, 



Handb. Bot. Term, und Syst. t. 57, f. 2805. A. Braun in Ann. des Sciences Nat. 



2nd ser. Vol. I. p. 352 ; in Flora, 1835, Vol. I. p. 55 ; Consp. Char. Europ. p. 4 ; 



and in Cohn, Krypt. Fl. Schles. Vol. I. p. 402. Ganterer, Osterr. Char. p. 11, 



t. i. f. iv. Crepin in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. Vol. II. p. 127. Leonhardi in Brunn 



Verhandl. Vol. II. p. 177. Wahlst. Monog. Sver. Norg. Char. p. 24. Baling. Man. 



ed. 8, p. 470. 

 C. vulgaris, var. elongata, Wallr. Annus Bot. p. 182. 

 C. ulvoides, Bertol. in Bruni Nuov. Collez. d'Opusc. Scient. 1826, p. 113; and Fl. Ital. 



Vol. X. p. 21. Amici, Descriz. Char. p. 21, t. iv. f. viii. and ix. Ganterer, Osterr. 



Char. p. 11, t. i. f. v. 

 C. translucens, and var. stelligera, Beichenb., Iconog. Vol. IX. p. 2, t. 804, 805. 

 Nitella stelligera, Kiitz. Phyc. Gen. p. 318 ; Phyc. Germ. p. 255 ; Sp. Alg. p. 518 ; and 



Tab. Phyc. Vol. VII. p. 11, t. 27, f. i. Coss. & Germ. Fl. Envir. Par. ed. i. p. 



681 ; and Atlas, pi. 41, f. G ; ed. ii. p. 892 ; and Atlas, pi. 47, f. h. Wallm. in 



Kongl. Vet. Akad. Handl. Stockh. 1854, p. 267. 

 N. ulvoides, Kiitz. Phyc. Gen. p. 318. Wallm. in Kongl. Vet. Akad. Handl. Stockh. 



1854, p. 267. 

 N. Bertolonii, Kiitz. Tab. Phyc. Vol. VII. p. 11, t. 26, f. ii. 

 Lychnothamnus stelliger. A, Braun, Fragm. Monog. Char. p. 102, t. vi. f. 189. Sydow, 



Europ. Char. p. 45. 



Dioecious. Olive green. Stem rather stout, translucent or opaque 

 from being encrusted with carbonate of lime, without cortical cells or 



* [Mr. Boswell has followed Braun in adopting Bauer's name C. stelligera for this 

 plant ; but Desvaux's name G. obtusa has the claim of priority, and concerning the 

 identity of the two there is no doubt, as specimens from both authors are preserved in 

 the Kew Herbarium.— N. E. B.] 



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