4 NOTES in ein BRITISH CHARACE® FoR 1883. 
<email Erb. Critt. Ital., 604; Rabenhorst, 219, 279: Billot, 
2995. 
Stem moderately stout, much branched, without cortical cells. 
hab usually of 8-11 straight or slightly incurved branchlets. 
ipulodes in a single circle, alternating with the br ike. 
io of 4-5 segments, the ultimate very short, scarcely 
exceeding the bract-cells. Bract-cells, at the ae nodes, 5-7, 
usually shorter than the nucules Nucules ingle or in pairs, 
black. 10-11 striate. Coronula short, slightly sokendinay. Nucleus 
ack 
the spas’ In a single cle. This section, although containing 
a large number of secon was not previously represented in this 
country. Our British plant is a rather large and slender form, with 
the branchlets very little contracted at the nodes. Itis of a bright 
Nitella-like colour, with a black incrustation on the older parts. 
Our specimens are 4-8 in. long, but the larger, such as that from 
which our drawing is taken, apparently belong to a plant of from 
12-18 in. high 
Chara Braunii was discovered by Mr. Charles Bailey near Red- 
dish, South Lanes., in September last, in a canal in which the water 
Braunii, also an inhabitant of eyo aving been a ace by 
the same means, although the distribution _ ‘the latter is such as 
to make its occurrence in this county proba 
is is a Miva species, and forms of it ‘have been eee 
over a very wide range; in Europe it has been recorde 
from Spain, France, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Ger ge 
Austria, Italy, and Corsica ; in Africa, from many districts, reaching 
south to ee ak | in Asia, from Syria, India, Java, China, 
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for May, 1882; it has iis been collected in the aes idpe Islands. 
Braun adopted the name of C. coronata, quoting it, in ‘Characeen 
as,’ as of “* Ziz. ined. circa annum 1814 (sensu Litton mi)" the first 
publication of this name that we can find is in Bischof, ‘ Krypt. 
Gewachse,’ where “C. Braunii Gmel.” aud ‘C. coronata Ziz.” 
are given 
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in “ C. Braunii”’ _ are solitary. Under Braun’s first publication 
of the name (An . Sci. Nat.) we find “Ch. coronata Ziz. Hujus 
subspecies cliente sunt : a Ch. Braunii Gmel., Fl. Bad! Ch. coronata 
Ziz. herb!” Now as C. coronata, Ziz.=C. Braunii, Gmel., 
according to Braun’s own showing, and the name Chara coronata 
ad been already applied by Bischoff a@ Bigs modification of 
Q. Braunii, we cannot conceive what reason there coul for 
pea the eeuble eee name of C. coronata, Aiaeas of the certain and 
definite name . Braunii, Gmel. 
