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Upper stipulodes 0.92-1.5 mm. long, but not concealing 
the uncorticated basal sa intercede 
oO. C. compacta. 
1. Chara pallida sp. nov. 
C. coronata Braunid forma novi-mexicana A. Br. Fragm. Monogr. 
har. 111. I 
C. coronata Braunit tenera A. Br.; Allen, Am. Nat. 16: 361. 
1882. 
Cc. coronata i ne pene Am. Nat. 16: 362. pl. g. 1882. 
us: 5-20 cm. high, totally unincrusted, or sometimes 
alternate with and equal in number to leaves, sometimes incon- 
spicuous, 0.25-0.75 mm. long, 0.07—-0.1 mm. wide: leaves 7-10 in 
—-25 mm. long, containing 3-5 eee besides the ter- 
minal cell; leaflets at sterile nodes usually very small, the bracteoles 
much shorter than or rarely nearly eee the sporocarps, 0.3—0 
mm. long, 0.05-o.1 mm. wide, the posterior very short or more 
often wanting : antheridia 0.26-0.32 mm. in diameter ; sporocarps 
or in pairs, 0.7-1 mm. long, 0.4-0.48 mm. wide; odspores 
0.42—0.52 mm. lo ong, 0.31-0.35 mm. wide, iy 5-7 rather coarse 
and prominent striae; whorl of crown-cells 0.12-0.21 mm. high, 
.2-0.25 mm. wide at base, the individual eile ovate or Sub hea 
spherical with a peaked apex, or subpyriform. 
Type collected at Silver City, New Mexico, by H. H. Rusby, 
1880; in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden. 
Distribution: New Mexico to central Mexico. 
Illustrations: Am. Nat. 16: 362. f. 2; pd. 4. 
Exsiccatae: Allen,Char. Am. Exsicc. zz. 
2. Cuara Braunu C. C. Gmelin, Fl. Bad. Alsat. 4: 646. 1826 
C. coronata Ziz; Bisch. Krypt. Gewich. 26. 1828. 
C. coronata Braunit A. Br. Flora 18: 60. 1835. 
Charopsis Brauniti Kiitz. Phyc. Gen. 319. 1843. 
noecious : 6-20 cm. high, without pee oat cortex, or 
mene stipulodes forming a single whorl at each node, alter- 
nate with and equal in number to the leaves, ty 0.4-0. 8 mm. 
long and 0.17-0.21 mm. wide, but a even on a single pees 
leaves 10-12 in a whorl, 1.2-1.8 mm. long, composed o 
internodes, besides the short terminal cell; erie at sterile nodes 
up to 0.4 mm, long, or entirely wanting; bracte oles 0. 
long, 0.08-o.2 mm. wide, the posterior very rarely eae all 
