Syj MONOECIA MONANDRIA. 



the preceding. It is incrufted, and fmclls and 

 talles iike the C. vuharis. 



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fcxil/s 3« CHAR A caulium articiilis incrmibus diaphanis fu- 

 ■ perne latioribus. Syfl. nat. 613. 5"/^ pi. 1624. 

 {Vail a'd. Paris. 1719, />, 18,/. 8, 9. Dillen. i, 

 c. p. 59, /. 13,/. 2, Schmiedel t. 14) 

 pellucid pliant Chara. Anglis. 



\v\ Jakes, as in Loch-Lowcnd, by Dr. Tarfons. In 

 •. ' Hill-Loch, upon Creg-chaillecb^ in Breadalbane^ 



and at Ccmtie, a village four miles from Cr/V/. 

 Mr. Stuart. 



'I he fialks are eight or ten inches long, fiftular, 

 tender, fmooth, flexible, and ot a dull green 

 pellucid colour : the leaves are fmooih, linear, 

 fiftular, r>ointed at the end, from four to ten or 

 twelve in a whirl, often lubdivided into two and 

 fometimes into three forks or branches, at a 

 joint near their extremity : the whirls grow in 

 cluilers towards the upper part of the fialks, 

 fecondary ones being pioduced from x.\\t aU oi 

 the primary : the fructifications grow cither finale 

 or in pairs, feflile, and placed on the infide, at 

 the angle of the fork or branches abovemen- 

 tioned ; thefe fructifications appear at firft like 

 Imall round yellowifh grains, v/hich afterwards 

 turn black, and are enclofcd within a green 

 tranfparent rind or pericarpium. 



DIANDRIA. 



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