868 
CRYPTOGAMIA. HEPATIC. Blasia. 
androg’yna. M. gual forked, ‘phereal, strap-shaped : female calyx en- 
ric 
pusil’la, 
na’tans, 
e, hemisphe 
jae A, se Dill, Gile! 3. a C.-Mich. a 3—Dill. 75s 3.B. 
Shoots strap-shaped, forked, dotted: often notched at the 
end; mid-rib blackish, Waser. Fruit-stalk terminating, } to 
1 inch high. Plant green, strap shaped, smooth, flat, in forked 
Under wet rocks on the niddcteling of Scotland, Dicks. ii. 17. 
BLA/SIA. Male : solitary imbedded in the sub- 
stance of the le 
Fem. Capsule ep 1- celled, crowned 
with a tube through which the seeds escape. 
Oss. For further particulars of the — see Vol. I. 
p- 368, and 390. 
" Schmid. Blas.-Hedw. theor. oe 156 to 164=Di/7. 31. 7= 
Mich. 7, Blasia—Fl. dan. 4 
Seeds when ripe flowing out Ps a cup cylindrical vessel, 
so small that Gee figure is not disc to the naked eye 
Linn. suec. m, 1053. Leaves ina wt a yaa 1 to 3 inches in 
diameter, deep purple at the base, gre at the edges, jagged. 
ws in a circular form in shady places. Leaves thin, green, 
pellucid, i whitish veins towards the base, waved at the 
cloven at the ends. _Fruit-sta/k 1-8th of an inch high, several 
rising in cee from near the ends of the leaves. Dru. 
the sides of ditches and rivers in a sandy soil. Hups. At 
the breaking of Medlock ie Bank at Feasington Wood be- 
aH 
arret and Knotmill; about a mile from Manchester. 
Hasttoa: in ted 238. Near Halifax. Botron. On Hounslow 
Heath, Hup P, Aug.—Nov. 
RICCIA. Capsules sitting, globular, 1-celled, 
growing at the apex of the leaf, and con- 
taining from 20 to 30 brown or white seeds. 
See vol. I. p. 368, and 391. 
R. Leaves inversely heart-shaped ; fringed. 
E. bot. 252-Dill. 78. 18. 
The edges of the leaves are not really fringed, es assume that 
appearance in con sequence of their sending out fibrous roots. 
A : 
EBER, ut ; an inch long. Fringe epetines white. 
Scuott, Leaves sometimes only inversely egg-shaped, and 
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