CHARA CONTRABIA. 37 



€. faetida var. hispidula COSSON & Gbbmain Atl. rior. Paris, t. 37, 



f. 5 (1845). 

 €. contraria Kutzing Phyo. Germ. p. 258 (1845) ; Sp. Alg. p. 523 



(1849) ; Tab. Phyo. t. 61 (1857). 

 Babbnhoest Deutsch. Krypt. PI. II, ii, p. 199 (1847). 

 Bbaun in N. Denks. Schweiz. Ges. Naturw. X, p. 15 (1849) ; in 



Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin for 1867, p. 905 (1868) ; in Colin, 



Krypt. PI. Schles. I, p. 405 (1876). 

 Wallman Porsok syst. Gharac. p. 76 (1863) ; Transl. p. 64 (1856). 

 Wahlstedt Bidr. Skand. Gharac. p. 15 (1862) ; Men. Sver. & Norg. 



Gharac. p. 31 (1875). 

 NoEDSTBDT in Bot. Notiser, 1863, p. 46. 

 OEBPm in Bull. Bot. Soo. Belg. 11, p. 126 (1863). 

 Lbonhaedi in Verb. Naturf. Ver. Brunn, II, p. 201 (1864). 

 Groves in Journ. Bot. XIX, p. 354, t. 224, 2 (1881). 

 MuLLEE in Bull. Soc. Geneve II, p 64, 1881. 

 Beaun & NOEDSTBDT Pragm. Mon. Gharac. p. 141 (1882). 

 Sydow Europ. Gharac. p. 57 (1882). 

 MiGULA Die Gharaceen, p. 432, f. 99-104 (1892-3); Krypt. PL 



Deutsch. II, ii, p. 296, t. 69 B (1907) ; Syn. Gharac. Europ. p. 96, 



f. 84-9 (1898). 

 HOLTZ in Krypt. Mark-Brandenb. IV, i, p. 97 (1903). 

 Peospee Garoflt. Espaii. p. 116, f. 21 (1910). 

 Ht in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LX, mem. 26, p. 33 (1913.) 

 Sluitbr in Bot. Zeit. LXVIII, p. 125, t. IV, f. 1-5, text-figs. 1-9 



(1910). 



Cfcetida var. contraria GossON & Geemain Atl. Pi. Par. ed. 2, t.41, 

 f. 8 (1882). 

 BosvTBLL Engl. Bot. ed. 3, XII, p. 204, t. 1915 (1885). 



ExsicCATA : — Areschoug 146, 299 ; Braun, Rabenh. & Stiz. 37, 38, 

 84, 88, 120; Erbar. Gritt. Ital. 552; Pries XVI, 94; Groves 37-9; 

 Nielssen 34, 35, 55 {fide Wahlst.) ; Nordstedt & Wahlst. 67-75; 

 Rabenhorst, 150, 499 ; Gr. & B.-W. 32. 



Monoecious. Stem of varying diameter ; internodes 

 iisually 2-4 times tlie length of the branchlets. Cort3X 

 regularly diplostichous, the primary series more promi- 

 nent than the secondary ; spine-cells solitary, obtuse, 

 usually short and inconspicuous, deciduous. Whorls of 

 ■6-8 branchlets. Stipulodes of both series usually 

 •developed, often of unequal size, blunt, sometimes small 

 and almost spherical. Branchlets incurved or spreading, 

 of usually 5-7 segments, 2-3 ecorticate. Bract-cells 

 normally 5, acute or obtuse, varying in length, the 

 .anterior pair often equalling or exceeding the fruit, 

 the second pair and the posterior bract-cell sometimes 

 developed, often rudimentary; hracteoles exceeding the 



