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sessile (?). The presence of true bracts distinguishes this 

 species, C. Borreri, and C. Smithii from C. polysperma and 

 C.fiexilis. Ditches. Cley, Norfolk. Copford, Essex. A. IV. 



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9. C. Borreri (Bab.) ; monoecious, st. slender equal flexible 

 transparent, branchlets strongly mucronate those of the primary 

 whorls simple sterile long jointed, others on axillary branches 

 many densely crowded bearing 3 short and 1 long bract at their 

 first and sometimes second joining, globules stalked or sessile in 

 company with several nucules and subtended by the 3 shorter 

 bracts. C. nidifica Borr., E. B. S. fol. 2/62, note. See A. N. H. 

 ser. 2. v. 87. Like but larger Jhan Nos. 7 and 8. Branchlets 

 suddenly contracted below the acute apiculus. Larger " bract " 

 occasionally bearing a cluster of bracts. Marsh ditch, Henfield, 

 Sussex. Mr. Borrer. A. VII. E. 



10. C. polysperma (A. Br.) ; monoecious, st. slender equal 

 flexible transparent, barren and fertile branchlets of the primary 

 whorls once or twice unequally branched, middle branch longest, 

 branchlets of axillary branches many densely crowded much sub- 

 divided into short joints mostly finely pointed, nucules and glo- 

 bules placed at the joinings of the branchlets between the lateral 

 rays. Small. Branches with 2 or 3 ascending branchlets, often 

 again branched, at their first joining; often but not always 

 there is a simple branchlet beneath and at right angles to the 

 main branch at that point. Globules stalked, directed down- 

 wards, few. Nucules clustered, sessile, directed upwards. 

 Running water. Bury St. Edmonds. Cambridge. Dublin. A. IV. 



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11. CHARA Ag. Crown 6f the nucule of 5 cells forming a 

 single circle, sometimes spreading, persistent. Stems usually 

 coated with smaller tubes. Granule taking the place of one of 

 the bracts. A double row of spines at the base of each whorl. 



* Stem coated with as many tubes as there are branchlets in each 

 whorl. Branchlets coated. 



11. C. crinita (Wallr.) ; dioecious, st. slender coarsely striated 

 thickly beset with setaceous patent clustered spines, branchlets 

 abbreviated, bracts whorled slender equal, nucules narrowly ob- 

 long shorter than the bracts. Wallr. Ann. Bot. t. 3. Slender. 

 St. erect, flexible, smooth, densely crowded, slightly branched, 

 pale green. Whorls of 8 10 short branchlets, each of 7 joints 

 with 6 bracts at each joining. Nucules solitary with 13 striae 

 and a prominent crown. Stagnant brackish pools. Burdoch 

 Pool, Falmouth, Cornwall. Rev. W. L. P. Garnons. A. VIII. 



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