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terior hardly reduced, 0.6-1.1 mm. long, all usually sone the 
sporocarps : antheridia es early deciduous, none seen with a 
greater diameter than 0.27 mm.; sporocarps 0.75-0.88 mm. ue 
0.4-0.46 mm. wide, with 10 or 11 light striae; whorl of crown- 
cells 0.o9g-0.11 mm. high, 0.16-0.18 mm. wide at base, seen as a 
whole appearing nearly flat-topped, the individual cells globose- 
ovate, connivent or sometimes spreading. 
Type eit by Edward Palmer, zo. 705, at Durango, Mexico, 
April to November, 1896; in the herbarium of the New York Bo- 
tanical Garden. 
Distribution: Only known from original collection. 
A plant with much the habit of C. Senctae-Margaritae, but 
approaching in some ways even more closely to C. elegans. 
41. Chara Sanctae-Margaritae (Allen) 
C. gymnopus Sanctae-Margaritae Allen, Bull. Torrey Club 27: 
303. Al. I¢; 415, f. I-4. 900. 
poate nena the antheridia and oédgonia borne upon the same leaf- 
nodes : . m. high, light-green, moderately but often unequally 
pater ae 0.6-1 mm. in diameter, triply sana. see ter- 
minal oe bee with, the lower ones less so or nearly desti- 
tute of, spine-cells, the length of the latter usually 0.7-1 mm. ee 
lodes forming a double whorl at each node, those in the upper 
linear, acute, about 0.7 mm. long, 0.125 mm. wide, usually nearly 
twice the length of the uncorticated basal internode of the aoe 
stipulodes of the lower whorl of similar width, ba only 0.35-0. 
mm. long: leaves 10-12 in a whorl, 1-1.5 mm. long, containing 
8-10 eipeage all ane le corticated except the el one, and the 
terminal o or sometim ae hich are uncorticated; leaflets 
at all eee oa eaicge 0.3-0 mm. long, those at any node 
the same size or more often the eee the longer, similar as brac- 
teoles, the anterior 0.96—1.2 mm. long, exceeding the sporocarps, 
usually slightly, but core nee one and a half times their length, 
posterior bracteoles 0.3-0.6 mm. long: antheridia about 0.35 mm. 
in diameter, often early deciduous; sporocarps 0.8-1 mm. long and 
0.4-0.44 mm. wide, odspores 0.63-0.68 mm. long, ee mm. 
wide, with 13 or 14 striae; whorl of crown-cells 0.14-0.2 
high, 0.16-o.2 mm. wide at base, the individual cells eres 
ovate, rounded at the apex, ascendin 
Type locality: Lakeside, San Des County, California 
Distribution : Central and southern California. 
Illustration: Bull. Torrey Club doc. edt. 
