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high, 0.15-0.17 mm. wide at base, the aoe cells lanceolate, 
somewhat erect or more often widely spre: 
Type collected in the Everglades, Florida, by A. H. Curtiss, 
February, 1852; in the herbarium of the New York Botanical 
arden. 
Distribution: Only known from original collection. 
36. Chara fertilissima (A. Br.) : 
C. gymnopus fertilissima A. Br. Fragm. Monogr. Char. 192 
1882. 
Monoecious, the antheridia and odgonia borne upon the same 
leaf-nodes, including that between the uncorticated basal and the 
lowest of the corticated leaf-internodes: of medium size, golden to 
green in color, collapsing when dry, brittle; stems triply corticated ; 
spine-cells visible only on the upper whorls, often decidedly whorled, 
double whorl at each node, those in the upper whorl covering the 
neta ree basal internode of the leaves: leaves 12 or I in a 
basal internode about twice as ane s wide; fertile leaf-nodes with 
about 3 posterior, short, or even very short bracteoles, and 4-6 elon- 
gated ones, the pair most anterior the longest, usually longer than, 
often twice as long as the sporocarps, very acute, 0.08-0.09 
wide: sporocarps pen ee 0.87-0.92 mm. long, o. pe 43 mm. 
wide, with 14 striae; odspores 0.6-0.65 mm. long, 0.3-0.34 mm. 
wide, black, the striae barely visible; crown-cells short, erect. 
Type locality: Martinique. 
Distribution: Only known from original collection. 
37. Chara guatemalensis (Nordst.) 
C. gymnopus guatemalensis Nordst. Hedwigia 27: 193. 1888. 
poe pena. the antheridia and odgonia borne together upon the 
r 3 lowest leaf-nodes: about 30 cm. high, golden-green, some- 
oe glistening, not incrusted; stem about 0.5 mm. in diameter, 
triply corticated; spine-cells very short, acute: stipulodes acute, 
about 0.1 mm. in diameter, forming a double whorl at each Rais 
those in the upper somewhat longer than those in the lower, but 
not, or only at the youngest nodes, covering the uncorticated al 
internode of the leaves: leaf-whorls separate, composed of about 10 
leaves, 1-2 cm. long, with 6-8 internodes, entirely uncorticated, 
cell short, acute; leaflets 0.075-o.1 mm. in diameter, acute, at fer- 
tile nodes 7, the 3 posterior short, somewhat projecting, the 2 lateral 
