The English flora - SeaweedAfrica

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Chora.] ch a raceme. 245
are said to arrive at a great size where these plants abound,
feeding perhaps on their fruit and, more greedily, on the insects
which they necessarily harbour.
1. Chara. Vaill.
(Character t/ie same as that of the Order.)—Name; its
origin unknown.
* More or less pellucid and flexible, not striated. (Nitella. Ag.)
1. C. translucens, Pers. (translucent Chara) ; elongated
smooth flaccid glossy and pellucid, branches of the whorls elon-
gated patent obtuse simple with a short point, nucules and
globules upon the smaller ramuli scarcely bracteated. Pers.
Syn.Pl. v. 2. p. 531. E. Bot. t. 1703. E. FL v. 1. p. 8.—
Nitella translucens, Ag. Syst. Alg.p. 124.
Deep stagnant pools near Shrewsbury; Browston, Suffolk; Bagnley
moor, Cheshire, Mr. Wilson. Several places in Scotland.— This is
the largest the brightest coloured and most glossy of any of our
species. Vaillant and Sir Jas. E. Smith describe the branches as jointed;
but this appearance is, I think, wholly owing to a fold in the membrane
of the tube, which is sometimes transverse and sometimes oblique.
2. C. flexilis, Linn, (flaccid Chara) ; smooth flaccid somewhat
glossy and pellucid much and frequently dichotomous,
branches of the whorls simple or divided obtuse, nucules few,
scarcely bracteated E. Bot. t. 1070. E. Fl. v. 1. p. 7.—
Nitella flexilis, and opaca, Ag. Syst. Alg. p. 124.
Ditches, lakes, and still waters, frequent.— Professor Agardh's Xittllu
opaca, according to specimens I have received from him, only differs
from the truvflr.ritis in having a partial incrustation and hence being more
opaque. Mr. W. H. Harvey finds a variety in the lake of Killarney near
Mucrnss, with the branches of the whorls more elongated than UsuUi,
and fertile ramuli nestled among them. Mr. Born r observes the nucules
and globules to be intermixed and clustered
3. C. nidifica^ (Kd. (clash red Chara) ; smooth flaccid BOHM
what glossy ami pellucid simple below, primary whorled branches
limple elongated, fertile ones very numerous crowded and pro-
liferous, nucules separated from the globules on the same plant
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