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31. SWEET-SCENTED WHITE WATER LILY; POND LILY 



CASTALIA ODORATA (Dryander) 



Rather scarce in Lake Maxinkuckee, only a few plants having 

 been found, some at the head of the Outlet, some near Norris 

 Inlet, a small patch at the culvert north of Winfield's and a few 

 over near the Academy grounds. It does not thrive nor increase 

 much in the lake as it does not find there the rich deep mucky 

 bottom in which it delights. 



It is common in Lost Lake, and flowers fairly well, but the flow- 

 ers are not so large nor so fragrant as those found in Twin Lakes 

 near Plymouth. Our plant seems indeed to approach more nearly 

 to C. tuberosa (Paine) Greene, but has the leaves purplish beneath, 

 which is a characteristic of odorata. 



32. FULL-FRUITED CHARA 



CHARA FOLIOLOSA Muhlenberg 



This, according to Robinson, is the proper name for the species 

 generally known as gymnopus. 



This is the species mentioned in the field notes as the "full- 

 fruited Chara". A short, very fuzzy, leafy Chara growing in small 

 clumps just below the water's edge along Long Point, Winfield's, 

 etc., in sand. It was usually conspicuously red from the great 

 abundance of fruit. The following are field notes : 



"Chara, alcoholic specimen in bottle marked Sp. No. 4, a Chara 

 growing in dense tufts near the shore. Roots or rhizoids very thin, 

 numerous, hyaline. Stems much branched from the base, many 

 branches arising in clumps on a rather stout, short transparent 

 prostrate stem. Internodes of secondary stems somewhat stout, 

 all above the first quite rough, the first smooth. Internodes yellow- 

 ish (lowest) or pale green (upper) about 14 inch long, turning 

 white on drying. Leaves 6 or 7 in a whorl, with a branch bear- 

 ing fruit and leaves in almost every whorl. Leaves and whole 

 aspect of plant roughish, the upper leaves densely crowded along 

 the upper side with small globular orange-red antheridia. Leaves 

 very rough from rows of "stipules". Whole plant about 2 or 3 

 inches high. The fruits consist of about 2 or 3 pairs of sex-organs 

 arranged as follows, counting from below: (1) a dark orange, 

 red globular antheridium, and above it an oblong light orange 

 oogonium. The simple lens shows the roughness of the main stem 

 to be due to small downward-projecting "stickers" or stipules. 

 On the leaves the same structures are in circles around the leaf 

 and point upward. 



