Blair Collection > Flora Scotica: or, a systematic arrangement, in the Linnaean method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides > Volume 1

MONOECIA MONANDRIA. 535
'J^^.r2S I. CHAR A caulibus Isevibus, frondibus interne den-
tatis. SyJ}. nat. 61^. Spec. pi. 1624. {Bauh. Prodr,
ic. p. 25. Vaill.M. Paris, lyig.p. 23. L 3. f. 1)
Common Cbara, or ftinking Water Horfctail.
j^nglis.
lu^ ditches where the water runs flowly not uncom-
mon. Dr. Parfons.
The ftalks are ■ branched •, when young fmooth,
ilrait#^, and flexible •, but wh.en grown to ma-
turity, more rigid, and incruQed with a kind of
tophaceous coat, which is hke fand between the
teeih. When dry'd they are extremely brittle.
The leaves are fetaceous, and grow verticillate,
eight or nine in a whirl. The pericarpium is a
yellow or fcarlet cruft or berry : they grow about
two from the aU of each whirl, of an oblong
form, replete with many black feeds. The
whole plant has a flrong difagreeablc fmell like
garlick or hemlock.
■'ifphla 2, CHARA caulibus aculeatis capillaribus confertis.
Syjl. nat. 613. Sp. pi. 1624. {Vaill. a5t. Paris.
1719. p. 18. /. 3./. 3. Pluk. aim. t. 193. /. 6.
Oed. Dan. t. 1 54 J
Prickly Chara. Anglis.
In ditches and lakes, as in Guilkn-Loch^ in Eaji-
hothian, near Lord Hyndfordh. Dr. Parfons.
The ftalk of this is a foot long, often fpirally
flreak'd, and together with the leaves covered
Viith numerous y^/;;w/^, which are never feen in
the