The English flora - SeaweedAfrica

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Cham.] CHARACEiE. 247
of tlie whorls subulate, fertile ones with many short ramuli or
bractese of which 3—4 are longer than the nucnle and globule
that they accompany. a. major ;
hispida, Li?m.—E. Bot. t. 463.
larger, stems spinulose. C.
E. FL v I. p. 7. Ag. Syst.
AJg. p. 128. (3. gracilis ; smaller, spinules obsolete. C. hispida,
[3. Ag. Syst. Alg. p. 128. E. Fl. v.l.p.7.
Ditches, especially in turfy bogs and lakes.—0. Lancing, Sussex.
V. Borrer. Southport, Lancashire and Anglesey Mr. W. Wilson.
Near Croft, Yorkshire, liev. J. DaUon.—In general this plant is thickly
incrustedj but in a specimen gathered by Mr. Wilson in Cheshire and
tallying with the figure in E.^Bot., the incrustation is scarcely perceptible.
Independent of this covering, the smaller variety very much
resembles a large state of C vulgaris, and the a., a gigantic C. eupera.
Indeed, I am sometimes of opinion that all our known Chora may.be
referred to one or other of 2 species, Cfcxilis, the type of the first divi-
sion, and C. vulgaris, the type of the 2d; and that, like almost all aquatic
plants, they are liable to great variation, dependant upon the soil, depth
and movement of thewater,and a variety of other circumstances. Agardh
enumerates 24- species as natives of Europe, and most of them of the
northern part of it; nearly the whole of which might probably be found in
the waters of our own country, if carefully investigated.