Q8 • A HEVIEW OF THE BRITISH CHAEACEifi. 



figures C. vulgaris (tab. 29) under Gesner's name, and C. polyacantha 

 (tab. 193), which lie describes from a plant sent from Ireland by 

 Sherard, as Hippuris muscosis sab aqua repens ; of the latter there 

 is a specimen in his herbarium in the British Museum. In the 

 second edition of Eay's 'Synopsis' (1696) four species are given, 



the addition being 0. minus sab aqua repens ad genicula polyspermon, 



which is described from Jersey, collected by Sherard, and is 

 probably Xitella opaca. Morison, in 'Plant. Hist. Universalis 

 Oxon,' vol. hi. (1699), figures a plant which he describes as 

 E. fragile majus subcinerea aquis immersum: this is probably a large 

 slightly-hispid form of C. vulgaris. In the third (Dillenian) edition 



of Ray (1724), Vaillant's generic name of Chara is introduced, and 



n *..^.i„.«,. »•,,„•,.,,„. a~*m* t \T ™n*n ?\ ic o/lrlorl Tn Hudson's 



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'Flora Anglica' (1762) the four Linnean names are given: 

 1, C. tomentosa (for large forms of C. vulgaris)] 2, C. vulgaris (for 

 C. fragilis and the smaller forms of C. vulgaris) ; 8, C. hispida ; and 

 4, O. fiexilis (for X. fiexilis and X. opaca). In Smith's 'Flora 

 Britannic* ' (1800) the same four are given, but Hudson's 



C. tomentosa is reduced to a variety of C. hispida. Withering, m 

 his * Botanical Arrangement/ (1776), gives in, addition to these, 

 C. repens as the name for Sherard's Jersey plant. In 'English 

 Botany, 1 C. nidifica (Tolypella fiomerata) (1807), C. translucens 

 (1808), and C. gracilis (1810) are added. S. F. Gray, in ' Natural 

 Arrangement of Brit. Plants * (1821), describes C. stellata (apparently 

 .V. tenuissima), and adds " C. crinita" (C. polyacantha). Grevillc, 

 in ' Scottish Cryptogamic Flora,* vol. vi. (1828), adds C. aspera. 

 In 1830, Wilson, in ' Hooker's Bot. Miscellany,' describes under 

 the name of C. gracilis a dioecious plant (iV. capitata?). Ie 

 Hooker's 'Brit. Flora,' vol. ii., part 1 (1833), eight species, 



translucens, fiexilis, nidifica, gracilis, vulgaris, Hedwigii, aspera, and 



hispida are given, C. Hedwigii being an addition. The Bev. M. J» 

 Berkeley, in 'E. B. Suppl.,' vol. ii. (1834), figures G. Hedmgih 

 and in a note thereto gives a description of " O. nidified" from 

 Henfield (T. prolifera). In 1841, in the second (Johnson's) edition 

 of ' English Botany,' the two genera, Chara and Xitella, are given. 

 Hooker, in ' Lond. Journ. of Bot.' (1842), records C. latifolia 

 (C. tomentosa) as British, and in ' Icones Plantarum,' vol. vi., gives 

 a figure of it. Berkeley, in 'E. B. Suppl.,' vol. hi. (1843), figures 

 C. pulchella (C. fragilis). In 1850 commenced a new era in the 

 knowledge of our Char as, when Prof. Babington, in his monograph 

 in the 'Annals and Magazine of Nat. Hist.,' completely rearranged 

 the species. C. syncarpa (Thuill.) was then first definitely 

 separated from C.fiej'ilis; C. mucronata and C. crinita, Wallr. 

 ('.'. canescens), were added; the number of the Tolypella Wftfl 

 increased from one to four: C. prolifera (T. glonierata), O. 

 polysptrma (T. intricata), C. Borreri) T. prolifera), and C. Smthh 

 (T. glomerata) the two latter being described as new; and i 



Hedwigii were united as C. frag His, Desv. I n 

 Allies' (1855Hhere is nothing new, but plates 



In 1862, 



lopecitroide* 



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pulchella and 



are given of eleven species, some of which are not good. 

 Babington, in ' Seemann's Journ. of Bot.,' describes C. a 



