Original Articles. 
CHARA FRAGIFERA, Duriew, AS A BRITISH PLANT. 
By Henry Troven, M.B., F.L.S. 
(Tab. 192.) 
Ralfs, of Penzance, so well known for his algological researches. In 
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teristic of that species. This quickly revealed their existence, thoug 
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Ralfs for fresh specimens (unfortunately collected too late in the 
season), from whi 
have been made. The locality whence they were obtain ; 
peaty pool at Chy-an-hal, near Penzance, Cornwall, where they grow 
much interlaced and mixed with confervoid Alge. A much smaller 
and more delicate form has been met with by ths same botanist ina 
pond on Lizard Downs and also at Tresco, Scilly Islands.* 
RA FRaGrreRA, Duriew in Bull. Soc, Bot. de France xvi., p. 185 
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thickened at the nodes and forming there large, compound, white, solid, 
heroidal bulbils reaching 4 inch in diqmeter, and lobulated, mamillated 
or verrucose on the surface. Internodes very long; nodes somewhat 
thickened ; branches seven or eight in a whorl, elongated, simple, very 
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lax, spreading, 
inwards but not connivent, with about fifteen (or more) nearly oer 
branches, bright orange; bracts minute, tooth-like. Nucules nume- 
solitary, on the lower joints of the branches, with 1-3 small, 
sharp-pointed unicellular bracts at the base, which are about half the 
length of the nucule, ovate-oblong, red at first, afterwards nearly black, 
with nine or ten spirals; cells of the corona short, blunt, not 
connivent. 
us, 
* A specimen which probably ought to be referred to C. fragifera was shown 
me recently by the Rev. H. E. wis, who collected it last year from a pond at 
Marazion, Cornwall, near the railway station. 
n.s. vo, 6. [ DECEMBER, 1877.]_ 2a 
