MONOECIA MONANDRIA. 



the preceding. It is Incrufted, and fmells and 

 taftes like the C. znilgaris. 



CHARA caulium arriculis inermibiis diaphanis fu- 

 perne latioribus. Syd, nal. 613 5^;. /;/. 1624. 

 (/'W/. a."!. Paris. 1719,/'. iH,/. 8, 9. Bilkn. i. 

 c. p. 59, /. 13,/. 2, Scbmiedel t. 14) 



Pellucid pliant Chara. Anglls. 



In lakes, as in Loch-Lomond^ by Dr. Tarfons. In 

 Hill-Loch, upon Creg-cbaillech, in BreadalbanCy 

 and at Cc^nrie^ a village four miles from Cr/V/r 

 Mr 6'///^r/. 



1 he ilalks are eight or ten inches long, fidular^ 

 tender, fmooth, flexible, and of a dull green 

 pellucid colour : the leaves are Imooth, linear, 

 fillular, T-ointed at the end, from four to ten or 

 jwelve in a whirl, often fubdivided into two and 

 iometimes into three forks or branches, at a 

 joir.t near their extremity : the whirls grow in 

 clufters towards the upper part of the ftalks, 

 iecondary ones being pioduced from the ala of 

 (he primary : the frudifications grow either fingle 

 or in pairs, feffile, and placed on the infide, at 

 the angle of the fork or branches abovemen- 

 tioned : thefe frudlifi cations appear at firft like 

 fmall round yellowifii grains, which afterwards 

 turn black, and are enclofed within a green 

 •LT-anfnarcr.r rind or pericarpiuni. 



DIANDRIA. 



