TRIMEN’S 
JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 
Ovigtnal Articles. 
ON CHARA OBTUSA, Dssv., A SPECIES NEW TO 
BRITAIN. 
By Henry anp James Groves. 
(Tas. 216.) 
As may be seen by the number of this Journal for October, 
1880, Mr. Arthur Bennett’s careful investigation of the Flora of our 
eastern counties has been rewarded by the discovery of Chara 
obtusa in Filby Broad, near ein outh, Bast Norfolk. This species 
not having been previously found in Britain, a description and 
plate are now given :— 
prusa, Desy. in Loi me gee sur les plantes a 
ajouter a la Flore de | ae Eaaon 5. 
C. vulgaris var. elongata, Wallr., eae "Bot. (1815), p. 182. 
C. ulvoides, Bertoloni in Bruni, Sand ee d’opuse. Scient. 
1825, a aus Flora Italica, vol. x., p. Amici, Deseriz di 
leune ove di ae (1827), p. ~ 31 bi iv., ee Ganterer, 
Renters: Charen (18 47), p. 11, t.i., f. 5. 
stelligera, Bauer in Moessler's Handb. der Gewachsk., ed. 2 
(1829), vol. iii, p. 1595 (fide Wallroth and Ruprec y Bra un, 
. Sc. Nat. 1834, p. 852; Flora 1885, vol. i., p. 55; Cohn’s 
Kryp ot. Flor. von Schlesien (1877), p. 402. Ruprecht, ‘Symb, ad 
Sas pl. iy (1845), p. 77. ceclerg Oesterr. Charen (1847), 
i. hs . 4. Leonhardi, Oesterr. Armleuchter Gewachse 
(is64}, p. 38. Braun, R. & 8. Exs. 1 & 84. Nordst. & Wahlst. 
s. 49 a. b. 
ge translucens (and ae heed a), Reich. pe t. 804-5, and 
comm. ix., p. 2 (not of 
NV ulvoides, uetz., Baas Gen. (1843), p. 318. Wallm. Act. 
Acad. Stockh., 1852 (1854), p. 268. 
N. stelligera, Kuetz., Phye. Gen. eee oil nee Alg. (1849), 
p. 518; Tab. Phye. vii., p. 118, t & Germ., Flor. 
Par. (1845), p- 661, and Atl. t. 41, L é: “Wallen fb, bs a0e. 
N. Bertolon i, Kuetz., Tab b. Phyc 6..¥u., p. il, and t. 36, 7 2 
Stem out. genres erately isenehed,: without cortical cells, pro- 
ducing at the lower nodes, white stellate processes (modified whorls). 
N.s. vou. 10. [January, 1881.} B 
