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N.E. and M.W. ; Durham (var. d) ; Roxburgh (var. d) ; Berwick ; 

 Perth (and var. d, "Moss of Thurloch"); Forfar (and var. b 

 Wicklow (and var. b) ; Gal way, W. ; Westmeath (and var. c 

 Deny (var. c). 



Var. harridan — Golden's Common, Freshwater, Isle of Wight. 

 Herb. A. G. More. 



viii. C. vulgaris, Linn. Spec. Plant. (1753), p. 1150; Wallr. 

 Ann. Bot., p. 179, t. 1; Smith, E. B., 336; Bruzel., Obs. Char., 

 pp. 5 and 21; ftupr. Symb. ad Hist. pL Boss., p. 80; Bab. 

 A. N. H., v. (1850), p. 89; Kiitz. Tab. Phyc, vii., t. 58, f. 1. 



C.fuuicularis and batrachosperma, Thuill Fl. Par. (1799) p. 473. 



C. fcetida, Braun, Ann. Sc. Nat., 1834, p. 354 ; Consp. Char. 

 Europ., p. 5; Coss. & Germ. Atl. Fl. Par., t. 37; Gant. Oesterr. 

 Char., p. 18, f. 13; Wallm. Act. Stockh., 1854, p. 304; Bab. 

 Man., ed. vii., p. 461. 



C. hispida, var. gracilis, Hook. Brit. Flor., ii. (1833), p. 247. 



G. lonc/ibracteata, " Kiitz." Wallm. Act. Stockli., 1854, p. 305. 



Stem moderately branched. Primary cortical cells less promi- 

 nent than the secondary, bearing few, small, obtuse, usually 

 appressed, spine-cells. Whorls of 6-9 incurved, or recurved 

 branchlets. Stipulodes small, obtuse. Branchlets of 5-7 (usually6) 

 joints, the upper 2-3 ecorticate. Bract-cells 4, anterior, longer 

 than the nucule (the posterior bract-cells are usually rudimentary). 

 Nucules ovoid, 12-13 striate, 3-4 on a branclilet. Coronula 

 somewbat spreading. Monoecious. (Tab. 208, f. 8.) 



b. longibracteata, Kiitz., Sp. Alg. (1849), p. 524. — C. longi* 

 bracteata, Kiitz. Tab. Phyc, vii., t. 60, f. 1. — 6\ fcetida, var. 

 lowjibracteata, Coss. & Germ. Atl. Fl. Par., t. 3, f. 7. — A large 



form with branchlets, and bract-cells much longer than in the 

 type. 



t. papUkta, Wallr. Ann. Bot. (1815), p. 183. — C. decipiens, 

 Besv. in Loisel. Not., 1810, p. 138? — r. collabens, Ag. Syst. Alg. 

 (1824^, Introd., p. xxviii. — C. fcetida, var. papillaris, Braun, Ann. 

 Sc. Nat., 1834, p. 355 ; Coss. & Germ. Atl. Fl. Par., t. 37, f. 6.— 

 G. fcetida, var. subhispida, Braun, Flora, 1835, i., p. 64. — Spine- 

 cells spreading, longer, and more numerous than in the type, 

 deciduous, secondary cortical cjIIs usually very prominent. This 

 form approaches (\ hispida. 



d. atrocirens. — C. atrovirens, Lowe, Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc, 

 vi. (1838), p, 551. — c. vulgaris, var. iminda, _ 

 Germ. (1833), p. Ill ?_ C. fcetida, var. vninda, Braun.— C. punctata, 

 Lebel.— Branchlets spreading, the upper ecorticate joints elongated, 

 kpme-cells few and inconspicuous. Unincrusted, of a dark green. 



e. crassicaulis, Kiitz. Sp. Alg. (1849), p. 523. — C. crassicaulis, 

 Schleicher; Kutz. Tab. Phyc, vii., t. 60, f. 2; Bramr Consp. 

 ^bar. Europ., p. 5. — C. fcetida, var, crassicaulis, Braun, Ann. Sc. 

 gat., 1834, p. 355.— C. longibracteata, var. crassicaulis, Wallm. Act. 

 ktockb., 1854, p. 306. — Stem stout. Bract-cells short, ovate, 

 kpme-cells papilliform. Branchlets stout, connivent, with usually 



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