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vials sent to Louisville. AlZfithese data are in- 
cluded here in an effort to maintain a maximum 
correlation between our sometimes fragmentary 
materials and the main collections of complete 
plants. 
COLLECTIONS FROM NEW CALEDONIA 
1. Char a corallina Klein ex Willd. em. R. D. W. 3 
R. D. Wood 61-6-20-8. June 20, 1961. In 
c. 4" of fairly clear water, mud bottom, field pool 
SE of "Dumbea Barrage Road” c. 2.5 km N of 
W Coast road New Caledonia. (CYT NC-5.) 
2. Lamprothamnium succinctum (A. Br. in Asch.) 
R. D. W. 
R. D. Wood 61-6-20-1. June 20, 1961. In 
c. 8" of brackish water, fairly turbid, soft mud 
bottom, SE side about 34 way to NE end on 
Marsh "Hippodrome,” Noumea, New Caledonia. 
(CYT NC— 1.) 
3. Lamprothamnium succinctum (A. Br. in Asch.) 
R. D. W. 
R. D. Wood 61-6-20-4. June 20, 1961. In 
c. 8" of brackish, fairly turbid water, soft mud 
bottom, SE side of marsh c. 34 way to NE end, 
"Hippodrome,” Noumea, New Caledonia. (CYT 
nc-2.) 
4. Nitella hyalina (DC) Ag. 
R. D. Wood 61-6-20-6. June 20, 1961. In 
c. 4" of fairly clear water, mud bottom, field 
pool SE of "Dumbea Barrage Road,” c. 2.5 km 
N of W coast road, New Caledonia. (CYT nc-3.) 
FIJ 1 
1. Char a corallina Klein ex Willd. em. R. D. W. 
R. D. Wood & Vakuru Waibuta 61-6-29-6. 
June 29, 1961. In c. 6" of clear water, mud bot- 
tom, pool in dry ricefield, W of Nakoroutari Rd., 
c. 2 mi. S of Nakama Rd., probably c. 5 mi. S of 
Labasa, Vanua Levu, Fiji. (CYT Fiji-17.) (In 
collection primarily of C. fibrosa. ) 
2. Chara corallina Klein ex Willd. em. R. D. W. 
R. D. Wood 61-7-1-1. July 1, 1961. Abun- 
dant in 1-2 ft. of fairly clear water, mud bottom, 
large pool c. 100 ft. SE of Loa Rd. c. 26 mi. E of 
Savusavu airport, Cakadrove Peninsula, Vanua 
Levu, Fiji (at culvert L284). (CYT Fiji-20.) 
3 em. Wood, 1962, to include both dioecious and 
monoecious forms, thus uniting C. australis and C. 
corallina in one taxon. 
3. Chara corallina Klein ex Willd. em. R. D. W. 
R. D. Wood & Vakuru Waibuta 61-6-29-1. 
June 29, 1961. In c. 3" of clear water, mud bot- 
tom, pool in drained ricefield W of Nakoroutari 
Rd., c. 150 ft. W of culvert marker K33, prob- 
ably c. 5 mi. S of Labasa, Vanua Levu, Fiji. (CYT 
Fiji-16.) 
4. Chara fbrosa Ag. ex Bruz. 
R. D. Wood 61-6-9-1. June 9, 1961. In c. 
6" of fairly clear water, mud bottom, pond in 
marsh, N side of Queen’s Road, c. 1 mi. W of 
Sigatoka Hotel, Viti Levu, Fiji. (CYT Fiji-1.) 
5. Chara fibrosa Ag. ex Bruz. 
R. D. Wood 61-6-28-1. June 28, 1961. Large 
mass in c. 6" of clear, fresh water, black muck 
bottom, small ditch pool on W side of Natovi- 
Korovou Rd., c. 13 mi. N of Korovou, Viti Levu, 
Fiji. ( CYT Fiji-15.) 
6. Nitella acuminata A. Br. ex Wallm. 
R. D. Wood 61-6-25-1. June 25, 1961. In 
3-4" of clear water, mud bottom, wet field N of 
road, c. l A mi. N of Navua Hotel, Navua, Fiji 
(c. 28 mi. W of Suva). (CYT Fiji-10.) 
7. Nitella acuminata A. Br. ex Wallm. 
R. D. Wood & S. Pillay 61-6-26-3. June 26, 
1961. In c. 12" of fairly turbid water, mud bot- 
tom, amid water lilies, in the western of the two 
large lily ponds on the plain below Adi Cakabou 
School, Sawani (c. 18 mi. N of Suva) , Fiji. (CYT 
Fiji-14.) 
8. Nitella pseudoflabellata A. Br. em., glomerate 
form. 
R. D. Wood & Bernard Vunibobo 61-6-13-1. 
June 13, 1961. In c. 3" of clear flowing water, 
mud bottom, drainage ditch in village green, 
Nacobo Koro, c. 6.4 mi. S of Levuka, Ovalau, 
Fiji. (CYT Fiji-2.) 
9. Nitella pseudoflabellata A. Br. em., fruticose 
form. 
R. D. Wood 61-6-25-6. June 25, 1961. In 
c. 8" of clear, fresh water, fairly firm mud bot- 
tom, pool c. 50 ft. behind beach c. 500 yd. S of 
jetty, Naitonitoni, Viti Levu, Fiji (c. 31 mi. W 
of Suva). (CYT Fiji-11.) 
10. Nitella pseudoflabellata A. Br. em., tiny form. 
R. D. Wood & Vakuru Waibuta 61-6-29-6. 
June 29, 1961. In c. 6" of clear water, mud bot- 
tom, pool in dry ricefield, W. of Nakoroutari 
