vulgaris. 
latifolia. 
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CLASS XIX.—MONOECIA. 
ORDER I. MONANDRIA, 
344, CHARA. Sp. pl. 1397. (Najades.) 
Calix and corolla none. 4nther globose, 
sessile. Style none. Stigmas 5. Berry 
4-celled, many-seeded.— Wutt. 
1. C. stems and branches naked at base ; branches 
terete; joints leaty; folioles oblong-subulate ; 
bractes shorter than the berry.—Wiild. 
Icon. Engl. Bot. 336. 
Feather Beds. 
Whole pliant encrusted, and exceedingly disagreeable in 
smell. In old ponds and sometimes in ditches along the course 
of the Delaware, Jersey side; rare. I have found it but once 
this side of the Delaware, viz. in a ditch near Gloucester point. 
The plant dries white or whitish-green, and is with difficulty 
preserved for the herbarium, being friable. Annual. August, 
September. 
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ORDER IL TRIANDRIA. 
345. TYPHA. Gen. pl. 1401. (Typhe.) 
Masc. ment cylindric. Calix obsolete, 3- 
leaved. Corollanone. Ferm. flowers be- 
low the masculine. Caliaw and corella none. 
Seed 1, pedicellate, furnished with a pap- 
pus at the base.—WVutt. 
1. T’. leaves linear, flat; masculine and feminine 
spikes near each other, each cylindrical.— 
Willd. 
Icon. Bot. Mag. 1455. Fl. Dan. 645. 
