88 Mr. C.C. Babington on the British species of Chara. 
which I am indebted to Mr. Borrer ; and as it does not seem to 
have been noticed elsewhere, I have ventured to record it as a 
new species, and honour it with the name of my valued friend. 
In a marsh ditch at Henfield, Sussex, Mr. Borrer. 
Annual. July. 
10. C. polysperma (A. Br. !); moncecious, stem slender equal 
flexible transparent, branchlets finely pointed those of the pri- 
mary whorls sterile once or twice unequally branched: middle 
subdivision longest, the other branchlets on axillary branches 
numerous densely crowded much subdivided with short inter- 
nodes, nucules and globules placed at the nodes of the branch- 
lets “ between the lateral rays ” (or bracts ?). 
C. polysperma, 4. Braun “ Fl. Bad. Crypt. ;? Flora, xvii. 56; Ann. 
Se. Nat. ser. 2.1. 352; Mutel Fl. France. iv. 162. 
C. fasciculata, “ Amici,’ A. Braun. 
A small plant resembling the preceding species, and having 
hike them bird’s-nest-like masses of branchlets. My specimens 
are slightly incrusted, as is stated to be the case in those found 
in France. Nucules small with faintly marked striz. Granules 
small. 
I gathered this species in the year. 1833 near Haslingfield in 
Cambridgeshire, but have not been able to find it there again. 
As numerous specimens were obtained by a party at that time, it 
is probably preserved in many collections under the name of C. 
nidifica, with which denomination it was’sent to Prof. Braun and 
named by him as above. Mr. Borrer possesses specimens found 
at Livermere near Bury St. Edmonds by the Rev. G. R. Leathes. 
Annual. April. ; 
Section II. Chara. Crown of the nucule of “ five cells forming 
a simple circle and sometimes spreading, persistent ” (A. Braun). 
Stems usually coated with smaller tubes. 
Chare vere. Granule taking the place of one of the bracts.— 
Diplostephane (A. Br.). A double row of spines (stipules) 
at the base of each whorl. 
a. Stem coated with as many tubes as there are branchlets in each 
whorl.—Branchlets coated. 
11. C. ecrinita (Wallr.) ; dicecious, stem slender coarsely striated 
thickly beset with setaceous patent clustered spines, branchlets 
abbreviated, bracts whorled slender equal, nweules narrowly ob- 
long shorter than the bracts. 
C. eriita, Wallr. Ann. Bot. 190. t. 3; A. Braun in Flora, xviii. 70 ; 
Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 2.1. 355; Mutel Fl. France. iv. 165. 
C. canescens, Reich. Fl. exe. 150. 
Hippuris, &c., Plukn. Phytog. t. 193. f. 6. Wallir. 
