LAMPROTHAMNIUM PAPULOSUM. 7 



1. Lamprothamnium papillosum J. Groves. 

 (Plate XXV.) 



Chara papulosa Walleoth F1. Orypt. Germ. II, p. 107 (1833). 



C. Pouzohii Bratjn in Flora, XVIII, i, p. 58 (1835). 



C. Wallrothii Ruprecht, Distr. Crypt. Vase. Ross, p. 11 (1845). 



NORDSTEDT in Bot. Notiser for 1863, p. 41. 

 C. alopecuroidea Beatjn in Neue Denks. Schweiz. Ges. Naturw. X, 

 p. 13 (1849). 

 KiJTzmG Sp. Alg. p. 518 (1849) ; Tab. Phyc. VII, t. 45, f. 2 (1857). 

 BoswELt Engl. Bot. ed. 3, XII, p. 193, t. 1909 (1885). 

 C. alopecuroides Wallman" Forsok Syst. Charac. p. 53 (1853); 

 Transl. p. 45 (1856). 

 Babington in Joura. Bot. I, p. 193, t. 7 (1863). 

 Lange in Fl. Danica, t. 2745 (1867). 

 Beaun in Monatsb. Akad. Berl. for 1867, p. 896 (1868). 

 Lyclmothamnus alopecuroides Brattst in Monatsb. Akad. Berl. for 1867, 

 p. 798 (1868), misprinted alopecoroides. 

 Groves in Joum. Bot. XVIII, p. 161, t. 209, f. 10 (1880). 

 Mansel-Pleydbll in Proc. Dorset Nat. Hist. Club, XIII, p. 163 

 (1892), witb plate. 

 Lychnothamnus Wallrothii Wahlstedt Mon. Sver. & Norg. Charac. 



p. 23 (1875). 

 Lamprothamnus alopecuroides Beatjn in Braun & Nordstedt, Fragm. 

 Mon. Charac. p. 100, t. 6, f. 185-8 (1882). 

 Stdow Enrop. Charac. p. 41 (1882). 

 MiGULA Die Characeen, p. 274, f. 74-6 (1890); Syn. Charac. Europ. 



p. 67, f. 61-3 (1898). 

 GiESBSfHAGEN in Flora, LXXXV, pp. 31-48, f. 45-51 (1898). 

 HOLTZ Characeen in Krypt.-fl. Mark Brandenb. IV, p. 40, f. 4 (1903). 

 Peospbe Carofit. Espan. p. 92, f. 16b (1910). 

 Hy in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LX, Mem. 26, p. 24 (1913). 

 Lamprothamnus papwlosus Begtjinot & Foemiggini in Bull. Soc. Bot. 



Ital. XIV, p. 108 (1908). 

 Lamprothamnium papulosum J. Groves in Journ. Bot. LIV, p. 337 

 (1916). 



BxsiccATA :— Areschoug 243, 396 ; Braun, Rabenh. & Stiz. 62, 63, 81 ; 

 Fries XV, 99 (fide Wahlst.) ; Groves 21, 46 ; Lloyd 412 ; Migula, Syd. & 

 Wahlst. 11, 12 ; Nielssen 15 {fide Wahlst.), 16 ; Nordstedt & Wahlst. 20, 

 21, 216, 22a & 6 ; Schultz 1200. 



Monoecious. Stem slender to moderately stout, lower 

 nodes often distant, the internodes sometimes four times 

 the length of the branchlets, upper whorls crowded, 

 forming long dense heads. Root-nodes producing whitish 

 spherical or elongated simple clustered bulbils. Whorls 

 of usually 6-8" branchlets. Stipulodes normally in a 

 single circle, corresponding in number and produced 

 opposite the bases of the branchlets, but occasionally 



