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Notes on the Geographical Distribution 

 OF Australian Charage^e. 



By Baron Sir F. vox Mueller, F.R.S., &c. 



[Read August 6, 1889] 



The following brief indications of the geographic range of 

 various Australian Characeye, which are additional to what is 

 recorded in vol. xi. of my Fragm. Phytogr., Austral., pt. 11., pp. 

 43-44, are from the researches of Dr. O. Nordsteclt, chiefly 

 through material communicated from the Melbourne Phytologie 

 Museum : — 

 Chara contraria, AL Br.: — Victoria; South Australia (Lake 



Bonney, Miss Wehl : Kangaroo Island, 0. Teiyper). 

 Chara coronata : — Victoria ; Queensland ; South Australia 



(Pidinga, ir. Tieikins). 

 Chara dichopitys : — -Victoria and New South Wales. 

 Chara fragilis, Desv. : — W. Australia ; New South Wales ; 



Queensland. 

 Chara gymnopitys, Al. Br. : — S. Australia (Kangaroo Island,. 



0. TepperJ: Y.; N.S.W. ; KA. 

 Chara gymnopus :— W.A. ; T., V. ; N.S.W. ; Q. ; N.A 

 Chara leptopitys, AI. Br. : — S.A. (Lake Bonney, 3Iiss Wehl) ; 



Victoria. 

 Chara macropogon, AL Br. :— W.A. ; Q. ; S.A. (Kangaroo Island, 



0. Tepper). 

 Chara Muelleri, Al. Br. : — Victoria. 

 Chara submollusca, Nordsteclt (n. sp.) : — Queensland. 

 Nitella conglobata :— W.A. ; V. ; N.S.W. ; Q. ; N.A. 

 Nitella cristata : — S.A. (Tatiara-country, C. Walter); T. ; N.S.W. ; 



Q. 



Nitella dift'usa : — Victoria ; New South Wales. 



Nitella gracilis : — S. Australia (Murray River, F. v. M) : Victoria. 



Nitella Gunnii, Al. Br. :— V. ; N.S.W. ; Q. 



Nitella hyalina :— W.A. ; V. ; Q. ; N.A. 



Nitella interrupta :— S.A. ; T. ; V. ; N.S.W. ; Q. 



Nitella leptostachys, Al. Br. : — S.A. (among Todeas above the 



cataract of Mount Lofty, F. v. M., 1848). 

 Nitella microphylla, Al. Br. :— W.A. ; T. 

 Nitella myriotricha, Al. Br. :— S.A. (Murray River). 

 Nitella polyglochin : — Queensland. 

 Nitella Sonderi, Al. Br. :— N.S.W. ; N.A. 

 Nitella Tasmanica, F. v. M. : — Victoria ; Queensland. 



