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Distribution: Rhode Island to New Jersey and Illinois. 
Exsiccatae: Allen, Char. Am. Exsicc. zo. 
The species as here conceived is somewhat polymorphic, the New 
Jersey plants being considerably more robust than those from 
Rhode Island and Connecticut. Agreement on the more essential 
characters seems however sufficiently close to warrant their union. 
Nordstedt identifies with this a plant from Vera Cruz, Mexico, 
which appears from the description to be somewhat different. 
Turckheim 606, Alta Vera Paz, Guatemala, is also somewhat 
closely allied, but too imperfect for accurate determination and 
description. 
Chara Martiana Wallm. Kong). Vet.-Akad. Handlingar 1852: 
294. 1854, would certainly be, from the description, a species of 
this group. Wallman published it supposing it to be C. Mar- 
tiana A. Br., a dioecious species of the gymnopus group from 
South America, which, however, had not then been published, 
though casually mentioned. The name therefore belongs to Wall- 
man’s plant and Braun’s must be renamed. Wallman’s description 
is as follows: 
‘©CyH. MarTiana: Caule subtilissime striato, striis rectis, in 
sicco collapso, plano, inferne subnudo, superne aculeolato, aculeis 
sparsis, minutissimis, diametro caulis multo brevioribus; involucro 
densissimo, spinulis uniserialibus, patentibus, acicularibus, caulis 
diametro longioribus; verticillis discretis, patenti-divaricatis, 10-12- 
radiatis ; ramentis caule duplo augustioribus, 7—-8-articulatis, genicu- 
lis constrictis, nodosis, obscurioribus, usque ad apicem bracteiferis ; 
internodio basali proximis 2~3-plo breviori, monosiphonico, nudo, 
ceteris inordinate alternatim simpliciter et composite tubulosis; 
ramulis intercalaribus brevissimis ; bracteis angustissimis, cuspidatis, 
interioribus 4: 2 longioribus, aequalibus, nuculam subaequantibus, 
2 minoribus itidem aequalibus, nucula multo brevioribus, aversis 
abbreviatis, saepe obsoletis. Monoica. 
*¢ Ch. Martiusii AZ. Braun, ined. — Ch. Martiana, idem Schwei- 
zer. Char. 
‘¢ Amerika, Guatemala! Ifran Aged sind till Apothekaren Zhe- 
denius, hvilken benaget meddelat densamma.”’ 
Nordstedt, however, has seen the original specimen, and says that 
the description is partially wrong; that the stipulodes form a double 
whorl, and that the plant really is C. sejumcta. It is not here cited 
as a synonym of that species, because two specimens from re- 
