MR. A. BENNETT ON NAIAS MARINA AND CHARA STELLIGERA. 49 
husband had bought the rand through which Middle ? (Deep) 
Dike runs, where the Naias grows, as you suggested to him 
at the Linnean.” This was done with a view to preserve 
the plant. 
Naias is widely distributed over the world under various 
forms. The Norfolk form is also found in France, Germany, 
Hungarv, Switzerland, Italy, Russia, China, India, United 
States, Australia. 
I have been unable to find any popular name for it in 
Continental Floras, except that around the Lac de Grand- 
Lieu near Nantes in France it is known as the “ Herbe qui 
pique;” all other names are simply a transliteration of the 
generic name, as “ Najade ” in Norway, &c. 
In the Lac de Grand-Lieu it occurs in water 1-50 to 2 m. 
deep, and in the Jura Lakes 2 to 3 m. deep. 
Chara stelligera, Bauer, in Moesl. Handb. ed. 3, iii. (1834), 
p. 1665. 
Chara obtusa, Desv. in Lois. Not. FI. France (18x0), p. 136. 
Lychnothamnus stelliger, A. Braun, in Frag. Monog. d. 
Characien (ed. Nordstedt) (1882). 
Nitellopsis stelligera, Hy. Bull. Bot. Soc. France (1905) 
p. 52. 
In July, 1880, I was at Filby Broad and Flegg Burgh Fen, 
and on going back towards the bridge at about the spot 
where the chain shows the division between Flegg Burgh 
and Filby, I brought up on my “ drag ” a lot of Char as. 
I filled my vasculum with them, not having time to examine 
them. On reaching home I found several pieces of a Chara, 
but almost in a paste, that I did not recognise ; but a piece 
of about 2 inches, with a few “ star bulbils,” at once put me 
on the track. I saw it could be no other than Chara stelligera, 
Bauer, of which I had specimens from the author himself 
gathered near Berlin. 
No opportunity occurred to go again until September of 
the same year, when I took some foolscap and blotting paper 
prepared to mount them in situ, as this species like some 
others, cannot be carried for any time without becoming 
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