NOTES ON THE BRITISH CHARACE® For 1885. 3 
Walton-on-Thames, 1885, H. G. An pas oat connecting link 
between the previous records of Norfolk and Dey 
is LYPELLA GLOMERATA, Leonh.—-Suffolk E., nr. frag South 
Town, 1885, H. d J. G.; Bedford, 1884, My Davis, comm. J. 
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specimens we have seen, ars to bear the same relationship to 
T. glomerata that T. Neewé maniana does to T’. nidifica 
T. mntricata, Leonh.—Hunts, St. Neots, 1885, W. R. Linton. 
ITELLA TRANSLUcENS, Ag.—Sutherland E., Lochinver, 1885, fide 
Dr. O. Norietett Kerry S., Killarney, 1885, 'E. F.& W. BR. Lin ton. 
N. FLEXILIs, o.—Stafis., Rudyard Lake, 1884, H. Searle, comm. 
A, Boinett: Notts .» near Workso op, 1885, H. Searle; Mayo E., 
Cong, 1885, E. F. & W. R. Linton. 
N. opaca, Piste — oes N., 1885, Miss C. E. Palmer; Kerry 8., 
1885, R. P. Murr . 
N. caprrata, ic Syst. Alg. (1824), p. 125; Wallm., Act. Stock- 
holm, iam (1854), p. 265, ex parte ; Wallst., Skand. Char. (1862), 
onog. Sver. Norg. Char., p. 15; Nordst t., Bot. Notiser, 
1868, p. 84; Rabenh., Krypt. Flor. ienhe (1863), p. 287; Leonh., 
Oesterr. Arml. (1864), p. 47; Braun, Consp. Char. Europ. (1867), 
p- 1; Monatsb. Akad. Berl., 1867, p. 801; Fragmente Monog. 
Char., p. 31; Sydow, Europ. Char. (1882), p. 12. 
C. capillaris, Krocker, Fl. Siles., iii. (1814), p. 62, fide Braun. 
C. capitata, Nees, Denkschr. Baier. Bot. Gesellsch., 1818, p. 80; 
, Ann 2. 
a alastidas Amici, Deseriz. di ale. sp. nuove di Chara (1827), 
p- 9; tab. i., figs. 2 & 8, tab. u. (extr. Mem. Acad. Modena 
N. syncarpa, var. gleocephala, Kuetz., Phye. Germ. (1845), 
p. 256. 
C. syncarpa, var. capitata, Gant., Oesterr. Char. (1847), p. 9 
(ea parte). 
npg ee —- Braun, R. & S., 26, 27, 28, 104; Nordst. & Wahlst., 
; Desmaz., Pl. Crit. F fi B19; Areschoug, Alg. Scand., 300; 
Billet, 1986-7. 
Stem slender. Whorls of 6-9 (usually 8) branchlets. Fertile 
mens usually in small compact heads, more or ae: enveloped in 
ucilage. Branchlets once divided into 2-4 one-celled acuminate 
reconary rays. Secondary rays equalling or iowtar than the pri- 
or oie so, with f getage nd chweas: ridges. Globules large. 
sr . 264. 
xceedingly beautiful species is most nearly allied to Y, 
opaca cae our British Nitellas, but may be at once distinguished 
by the erp tac enveloping the fertile. a and the more slender 
habit. It is generally distributed in Europe, but we have no 
records of it as. Russia or the Thevian Peninsula. It has also 
been found in North Africa, Asia, and North America. N. capitata — 
