264 Engelmann and Gray, Plante Lindheimeriane. 
clayey bottom of clear rivulets, in the prairies between the 
Brazos and Colorado. July, and the whole year round. 
** No. 151. Monarpa LixpuxiwEn:r of this enumeration 
Pod be the same as M. scasna, Beck, in Sill. Jour. X. P 
260, which name should therefore be adopted. 
1 Tn addition to the enumeration Jd the North American Chare, published in 
'Silliman's „Journal, Vol. XLVI. p. 92, (January, 1844,) we ion the — 
“Notices, commiunicated by Professor Wish: 
Mr. Lindheimer has a tee Texas specimens of Chara Jeilis ae 1 (ineom- 
plete specimen,) cand of uissima, Desv. * This last, as wel e specimens 
from husetts, may eh distingnished as var. Americana; i dnd less 
densely glomerate, but ximat n the European form 
Chara ias yphylla, A. Br., is * very Sanit tih. plant, occurring i in many differ- 
ent forms in America, Asin; and the Sandwich Islands. Professor distin- 
guishes seven | subspecies, 
yphylla Mo (Ch. polyphylla, A. Br. in Regensb. Bot. ' Zeit. 
nm» 70; Ch. Michauzii, A. Br. in Sillim. Journ. l. e. -No. 11; Ch. capillata 
pE 
and subspecies of the remarkable group of ind oda, A: Br. The here are 
five species now known, belongtig to this c ; and of these Ch. polyphylla i Ad me 
— ous, and wi widest spread species. — The Gymn nopode are di: 
guished by ha ice own (often very short) joint of the otherwise coated lane 
ly om fe illated branchlets) naked, or destituie of the. ring. 
b. Ch. poly yphylla slp (Ch. č "dica, Bert.) Gua deloupe, dl iie. 
slender, with smaller, more elongated seed vessels (sporangia) and 
€. Ch. poa Ns mae (Ch. zeylanica,. Klein in Willd.) Ceylon, ps 
cherry, Madras, 
d. Ch. olhas villa j 
e. Ch. polyphylia Mahipieta (Ch. foliosa, Mublenb. i in Willd. ; ; Slim. Journ 
L. .€., p.93, No, 10.) Pennsylvania, Er Very near : subspecies Č Ld 
ica, and distinguished from a. Michau y the-bracts being mach lon — 
; sporangia, while they are — æ prediis 
f. polyphylla Humboldtiana, (Ch. co compressa, H. B. K. ) New Andalusia 
Humboldt, A variety with edis. of the e joints of the leaves destitute of the 
Ch. polyphylla. armata, (Ch. armala, p eae TB Roni d x "Sandwich ans, 
b. Distinguished by the stronger spen and also A hemi upper joa 
and smaller se els. 
A second species, pie from Ch. prigis but also. be longing 10 Gymnopodes, 
has been collected by Dr. Engelmann, in lakes in the bottom E of the nr 
sippi, near Saint Louis ; it is called by Professor Braun - 
«...'€h. sejuncta, a, more slender and greener plant than the. last, bat t principally dis- 
tinguished by the seed vessels (sporan gia) and globules ( thers) being 
always fi (i Drainehleta,) never as in most other 
t.— Martius eer mu — x 
and more slender, 
e E ia, and the the Brazilian 
