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and veins, the sheaths smooth. Ligule with long silky fringes. 
Spikelets racemose-paniculate, about ten. Glumes 43”—5” long, 
acute, concave, smooth, 3-nerved, with broad white margins, equal. 
Florets with a tuft of silky hairs at base; lower palet ovate, bifid, 
the teeth very slender (1” long), clothed with silky hairs in seven 
lines, and on the margins below (membranaceous and naked above 
on the margin), awn about twice as long as the palet, flat and 
twisted below but scarcely colored; inner palet membranaceous, 
nerveless, ciliate.” Austin JLSS. 
Woods. Danube, Herkimer county, July, 1868. C. F. Austin. 
Rare. 
Compared with Danthonia spicata, this species differs in its 
longer leaves,—the upper ones overtopping the panicle,—its looser 
panicle and more numerous spikelets, the longer teeth of the lower 
palet and the tuft of hairs at the base of the florets. 
CHARACE. 
NIvELLA FLEXILIs, Ag. 
Ponds and slow flowing streams. Sandlake and North Elba. 
NITELLA MUCRONATA Var. FLABELLATA, Awtz. 
Lower Saranac Lake. 
NITELLA ACUMINATA var. GLOMERULIFERA, A. Graun. 
Lower Saranac Lake. Rare. 
CHARA coRoNATA, 272. 
This species, with its semi-transparent stems and branches, desti- 
tute of cortical incrustation, might at first sight be mistaken for a 
Nitella. It grows in shallow water in Saranac lake, intermingled 
with the two preceding species. 
CHARA FRAGILIS, Desv. 
Mud Lake, Herkimer county. A small form with long bracts ; 
sometimes cinerescent. 
Ouara Farina, A. Braun. 
(C. vulgaris of authors, in part.) Common, especially in lime- 
stone regions. Our specimens are from Albany, Schenectady and 
Herkimer counties. 
CHARA CONTRARIA, A. Brawn. 
Cedar Lake, Litchfield, Herkimer county. Much of the bottom of 
the lake is covered with this and the two preceding species, the 
plants ranging from a few inches to two or three feet inlength. In 
no other part of the State have I seen the Char so abundant as in 
the southern towns of Herkimer county. 
