Ovigtial Articles. 
NOTES ON BRITISH CHARACEZ. 
By Henry anp James GRovEs. 
(Puate 224.) 
Tue present ae was commenced as an account of Chara 
baltica and C. contraria, but it has been thought a convenient 
opportunity to pablials additional localities, &c., for the _ 
species, of which we have seen specimens since writing 0 
** Review of the British Characee.” We also take this da 2 
to thank those botanists wee have kindly sent us specimens of 
these plants. 
rracitis, Desv.—Near Dolgelly, perigee 1881, J. G. 
iRivinnoliobitals var. barbata); near Thirsk, N.-E. orks, 1880, G. 
Nicholson; Loch Laggan, W. Perth, 1881, &. Pid (approaching 
var. delicatula). 
Var. HedwigitNear Kingston, sirctaeh 1880, G. Nicholson 
(see Bot. Exch. Club Report, 1880, p. 89, and Journ. Bot., 1881, 
p. 848); near Knowle, Warwickshire, i810, J. E. Bagnall ; near 
Ripo on, M.-W. Yorks, 1881, G. Nicholson. 
Bap hc Won ceracs Sutton Park, Warwickshire, 1878, J. LE. 
4 conntvens, Braun.—We have received a specimen of this 
collected 52 Mr. Bolton King, at Slapton Sands, last year, which 
removes the doubt veg inet in our ‘“ Review” as to the identity 
of the ove from that locality. 
GC. aspera, Willd.--Burwell Fen, Cambridgeshire, 1881, H. G.; 
sea the ‘same station from which Mr. Bennett recorded it in 
Journ. Bot., 1881, p. 278; Lough Derg, E. Galway, 1881, Bolton 
ing 
Var. curta, _— Char. Europ., p. 6. C. curta, Kuetz. Tab. 
Phye., vii., t. 53.—Branchlets very short, somewhat incurved ; 
spine-cells man Ny ee Usually much incrusted. Lough Derg, 
E. Galway, 1881, Bolton King (see Journ. Bot., 1881, p. 34 y | 
C. paurica, Bruzel. Obs. — eye pp. 11 and 19; Fries in 
Aspegren’s Blekings Flor. (18 23), p. 65 (nam ame) ; Agardh, Syst. 
Alg., p. 127; Wallm. Act. Stockh., 1852 (1854), p. 818; Kuetz. 
; i 2; Wallst. t. Skan d. Char., p. 16; Mon og 
Bot. Notiser, 1868, p. 49; 
. Bab. Man. ed. viii., p. 472. 
C. hispida, var. baltica, Hartm. Skand. Flor. (1820), p. 876. 
C. firma, Ag. Syst. Alg. (1824), Introduction, p. 28. 
x. s, vor. 10. [Dxcemser, 1881.) Ba 
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