CHARA CANESCENS. 15 



C. crinita Wallboth Annua Botanicus, p. 190, t. 3 (1815). 

 Brtjzelius Obs. Char. pp. 10, 19 (1824). 

 Agaedh Syst. Alg. p. 126 (1824). 

 Beatjn in Ann. sc. Nat. ser. 2, 1, p. 366 (1834) ; in Flora, XYIII, i, 



p. 70 (1835) ; in Abh. Berl. Akad. Wiss. 1856, p. 338, &c. ; Consp. 



Char. Europ. p. 5 (1867) ; in Monatsb. Akad. Berl. for 1867, p. 901 



(1868) ; in Oohn, Kiypt. PI. Schles. I, p. 404 (1876). 

 KtTTZiNG Phyc. Germ. p. 259 (1846) ; Sp. Alg. p. 525 (1849) ; Tab. 



Phyc. VII, t. 69, f. 1 (1857). 

 Gantesbe Osterr. Char. p. 14, t. 2, f. 8 (1847). 

 Babington in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, V, p. 88 (1850). 

 Rtjpbbcht Symb. Hist. PL Ross. p. 86 (1845). 

 Wallman Porsok Syst. Charac. p. 91 (1863) ; Transl. p. 76 (1856). 

 Wahlstedt Bidr. Skand. Charac. p. 31 (1862) ; Men. Sver. & Norg. 



Charac. p. 26 (1875). 

 NoEDSTBDT in Bot. Notiser, 1863, p. 41 ; 1871, p. 162. 

 Babbnhoest Krypt.-fl. Sachsen, I, p. 290 (1863). 

 Oeepin in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. II, p. 126 (1863). 

 Lbonhaedi in Verh. Naturf. ver. Brunn, II, p. 180 (1864). 

 Langb in Flora Danica, t. 2747 (1867). 

 Db Baey in Bot. Zeit. XXXIII, t. 5, f. 7-20 (1875). 

 Bba-dn & NoEDSTEDT Fragm. Mon. Charac. p. 137, f. 221-2 (1882). 

 Stdow Europ. Charac. p. 52 (1882). 

 BoswBLL Engl. Bot. ed. 3, XII, p. 198, t. 1912 (1886). 

 MlGTJLA Die Characeen, p. 348, f . 87-90 (1891) ; Syn. Charac. Europ. 



p. 83, f. 73-5 (1898). 

 WiLLE in Engler & Prantl Nat. Pfl.-fam. I. ii, p. 175, f. 128a (1891). 

 HOLTZ in Kiypt. Mark Brandenb. IV, i, p. 91 (1903). 

 Peospbb Carofit. Espan. p. 104, f. 19, 20a (1910). 

 Ht in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LX, Mem. 26, p. 28 (1913). 

 C. hispida Tar. crinita Wahlbnbeeg F1. Suec. II, p. 692 (1826). 

 0. horridula Rabenhoest Deutsch. Krypt. Fl. II, ii, p. 198 (1847). 

 C. condensata Wallmann Forsok Syst. Charac. p. 92 ; Transl. p. 77 



(1856). 

 C. pusilla KiJTZiNG Tab. Phyc. VII, t. 69, f. 26 (1867). 



Exsiccata :— Areschoug 42, 398, 399 ; Braun, Rab. & Stiz. 6, 65-8, 

 80, 118; Desmazieres II, 336; Fries VIII, 100; Groves 18, 19 

 Hansen 1100 ; Heldreich 996 ( ? only), 9966 ; Krypt. Exsicc. 89, 1015 

 Lloyd 420 ; Migula, Syd. & Wahlst. 13, 14, 38, 62-5, 91-4, 131-2 

 Nielsen 17, 18, 49 {fide Wahlst.) ; Nordstedt & Wahlst. 23-9 ; Raben- 

 horst 69 ; Gr. & B.-W. 27-9. 



Dioecious. Stem moderately stout ; internodes 2-4 

 times the length of the branchlets. Cortex regularly 

 1 -ranked, rarely with any trace of lateral cells ; spine- 

 cells persistent, some solitary, but mostly in clusters of 

 2-5, spreading, once to three times as long as the 

 diameter of the stem, usually slender and acuminate, 

 occasionally shorter and blunter. Whorls of 8-10 

 branchlets. Stipuhdes of both series well developed. 



