2"8 characejE. 



The most, reasonable consideration is, to regard the re- 

 producing point (or female) as a bud. Because in no instance 

 is the fruit of Acotyledons so manifestly a modification of the 

 axis. 



Because in no instance does the fruit contain only one germ. 



Because the structure is quite different from the others, 

 and nothing like the pollinia developement takes place in 

 the female. 



2. Chara S/xif/noicles Gr. LXIII. Fig. II. See Itinerary 

 Notes, Book II, Chap. II, Number 149. p. 356. 



1. Plant natural size. 



2. Portion of a brauoh. 



3. A single cell of a whorl. 



4. Branch and reproductive organs. 



5. Reproductive organs in early stages. 



6. Mature ditto opaque. 



7. Spiral covering of ditto detached, 



8. Mature reproductive organ, in water 



9. Apex of its membrane shewing that these teeth are distinct 

 cells. 



10. Portion of ditto intended to shew that the spires are inflected, 



as must be the case if the coat is formed of 5 spiral cells. 

 1 I. Section of nucleus. 

 LB. Corpuscules or amylaceous granules. 



13. A representation of what I thought, was an embryo, the ap- 

 pearance only occured three or four times. 



11 ah, Common in stagnant fresh water at Cabul. So much 

 incrusted, that at first sight it resembles Sphagnum. 



3. Chara Erythrogyna. Ramis plurimis : patentibus, (suf- 

 fultis processubus ramulis omino similibus) — nitellinis. 

 Ramulis pluribus — nitellinis. 



Monoica : fl. masc. in ramulor sub axillis vel solitariis vel 

 Fl. fcem : vel more solito supra masc. vel omnino segregate, 

 solitarii vel gemini : colore insolitissimo maris nempe auran- 

 tiaceo. 



