448 102. CHABACEJE. 



whorls simple sterileilong jointed, others on axillary brancthes 

 many densely crowded bearing 3 short and 1 long bract at their, 

 first and sometimes second joining, globules stalked or sessile ;in 

 company with several nucules and within the 3 shorter bracts. 

 — G nidmca'Borv., E. B. S. fol. 2762, note.' See^. iVI^.ser. 2. 

 V. 87.^Like but larger than Nos. 7 and 8, ■ Branchlets suddenly 

 contracted below the acute tip. Larger " bract " occasionally 

 bearing a cluster of bracts. — Marsh ditch, Henfield, Sussex. 

 Mr^'Sqrrer. A. VII. ' ; ' E. 



10. C. pohfsper'ma (A. Br.) ; moncEcious, st. slender equal 

 flexible transparent, barren and fertile branchlets of the primary 

 whor'ls once or twice imequetlly'lrdnched, middle branch longest^ 

 branchlets of axillary branches' many deinsely crowdedi much 

 subdivided into short joints mostly finely pointed, nucules and. 

 globules' placed at the joinings of the branchlets between the 

 lateral rayk-^SnialL Branches with 2 or .3 ascending branbh'- 

 lets, often again branched, at their first Joining; often but not 

 always' there is a simple' branchlet beneath and a.t right angles 

 to the main branch at that point. Globules stalked, directed 

 downwards, few. Nucules clustered, segsile, directed upwards. 

 — Runrdhg water. Bury St. Edmunds! ' Cambridge. Dublin. 

 A. IV. ■ , : E.I. 



n. Chara Ag. — Cro-wn of the nucule of 5 cells forming a 

 single circle, sometimes spreading, persistent. Steins usuaily 

 coated -with smaller tubes.^i-Granule taking the place of one, of 

 the, bracts. A double row of spines at the base of each whorl; 



* Stem composed of a single tiibe, smootlty unarmed, flexible, 

 diaphanous. — Involucral ' spines long. Glohule ' hy the ' side 

 of the micule above the hrflets. 



11. C. alopecuroides ' (Del.) ; monceeious, st. rigid opaque, 

 branchlets 3— 5-jointed, lowest joint about as long as the seeond, 

 invol. -spines peedle-sjiaped long patent or de^exed, bracts 

 whorled 5 — Oat each joming long equal, nucules with many 

 stri» oval.,— 'Seem. y. of S. i. t, 1. — Small, upright, opaque, dull 

 greenish brown, 4 in. high:- — Saltpans, Newtown, Isle of Wight. 

 A. VIII. ', , , . , E. 



*• Stem coated with as many tubes d$ there are branchlets in each 

 whorl. — Branchlets coated: 



12. C. erinita (Wallr.,)> ; dioecious, st. slender coarsely striati; 

 thickly beset ynth setaceous patient clustered spines, branchlets 

 short, bracts whorled slender equal, nucules narrowly oblong 

 shorter than the bracts.^ WaUr. Ann. Sot. t. 8. — Slender. S-t. 

 erect, flexible, smooth, densely crowded, slightly branched, pale 



