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Distribution : Massachusetts to Long Island; Europe, Asia, and 
rica. 
Illustrations: Bull. Toy Club doc. e¢t.; A. Br. Fragm. 
Monogr. Char. Joc. czt.; Kiitz. Tab. Phyc. 7: pl. 69. f. 7; 
Migula, Char. Deutsch. Osten: Schw. /. 87-90; Migula, Consp. 
Char. Eur. f. 73-75; E. & P. Natiirl. Planzenfam. f. 728; Allen, 
Char. Am. Joc. ctt. 
8. Chara hypnoides sp. nov. 
Monoecious, the antheridia and odgonia probably always borne 
upon the same leaf-nodes: 3-5 cm. high, cespitose, not incrusted ; 
cortical node-cells sometimes forming oval to depressed- -globose 
papillae, 0.03-0.1 mm. long: stipulodes often i inconspicuous, form- 
ing a double whorl at each node, the number in each whorl twice 
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long, those in the lower oval to globose, 0.05-0.1 mm. long: leaves 
—§ in a whorl, often entirely uncorticated and then usually 3-celled 
and not developing nodes and internodes, or uncorticated but form- 
ing nodes and internodes, or the first one, two, or three internodes 
singly corticated, the cortex-cells in contact with one another later- 
ally or more or less separated, terminal leaf-cells sometimes only 
0.1 mm. long, ovate; leaflets at the sterile nodes reduced to papillae, 
or the anterior fascicled and attaining a length of 0.4 mm.; anterior 
bracteoles 0.1-0.3 mm. long, shorter than the sporocarps at any 
stage, the lateral and posterior bracteoles still shorter, not exceed- 
ing 0.175 mm., usually less: antheridia early deciduous, 0.32-0.3 
mm 
wide, with 8 striae, the es 0.07-0.I4 mm. high, ee 
globose. 
Type collected in shallow water in the crevices of rocks, along 
the borders of an island on the east side of Lake Nipigon, Ontario, 
by John Macoun, zo. 6, July 16, 1884; in the herbarium of the 
New York Botanical Garden. 
Distribution: Only known from original collection. 
A distinct and very curious species, placed by Dr. Allen near 
the dioecious C. zmperfecta A. Br. from Algeria; probably even 
closer to European specimens of C. dzssoluta A. Br.; with impor- 
tant resemblances to and sharp distinctions from both. 
