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corticated internodes, the latter usually about 1 mm. long; leaflets 
at sterile nodes 0.18-1.25 mm. long, according to Braun the anterior 
i s 
5 0. 4mm. wide; 
mm. long, 0.28-0.3 mm. wide; striae on entire side of sporocarp 
14-15; crown-cells elongated, cylindrical, or shorter, erect or 
diverging. 
Type locality: Trinidad, West Indies. 
Distribution: Trinidad and Central America. 
Illustration: Kiitz. Tab. Phyc. loc. czt. 
Following Braun, the Trinidad and Nicaraguan plants are placed 
together. Some of the measurements are from plants collected by 
Wright in Lake Nicaragua, certainly Oerstediana, and by Gaumer 
in Yucatan, which are nearer to Crigeriana. Additional mature 
material must be collected before the true status is finally determined. 
35. Chara filicaulis sp. nov. 
Monoecious, the antheridia and oégonia borne together upon the 
leaf-internodes, including that between the uncorticated basal and the 
lowest of the corticated leaf-internodes: probably 0.4-0.5 m. high, 
ne or the older internodes becoming grayish, very slightly 
incrusted; stems 0.4-0.52 mm. in diameter ultimately triply corti- 
cated, but the ere cells developing irregularly, so that the 
youngest internodes often seem doubly corticated, or rarely two 
primary cells are not separated by secondary ones ; or on the contrary, 
ping past one another, three secondary cells may intervene between 
two onlay apical stem-internodes short, beset with spine-cells 
0.88-1. ee . long, 0.04-0.09 mm. wide, older 
eae becoming 5-1ocm. long, with scattered spine-cells : "stipu- 
lodes oe dou ea at each node, those in the upper whorl 
0.7-0.88 mm. long, 0.07-0.09 mm. wide, 1-14 times as long as 
the ere basal sia internodes, stipulodes of lower whorl 
0.52-0.6 mm. long: leaves 8-10 in a whorl, 1.2-1.8 cm. long, con- 
taining 8—10 internodes, all triply corticated except the basal one and 
the terminal cell, uncorticated basal internode 0.44-0.7 mm. long, 
0,2~0.25 mm. wide; leaflets at sterile nodes 0.17—-0.45 mm. long 
the eal usualy distinctly longer than the posterior, as bracteoles 
the anterior 0.85~—1.25 mm. long, slightly exceeding the sporocarps, 
posterior bade: 0.19-0.23 mm. long: antheridia rather early 
deciduous, 0.37-0.42 mm. in diameter; sporocarps 0.84-0.95 mm. 
long, 0.37-0.47 mm. wide; odspores 0.63-0.75 mm. long, 0.32-0.42 
mm, wide, with 12-14 striae; whorl of crown-cells 0.11-0.14 mm. 
