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punctate; they are sinuate along the margins and as if 
crisped. In the middle of the leaves and now and then 
toward their margins, “certain foliaceous luwnulce projecting 
above the surface of the leaf come forth, which hold the 
seeds, crowded together in the cavities and lying on the 
back of the leaf. In the spring, after the seed has matured, 
the lunule vanish. It occurs in shady and moist places, but 
somewhat rarely. Mr. Dale, pharmacist and physician of 
Braintree, our neighbor and a zealous botanist, first detected 
it and showed it to us growing a far from our house; and 
elsewhere still more abundantly.” In one of Ray’s later 
works, Mr. Dale’s name is written after the phrase-name 
quoted above as if he were the author of it, though he 
appears here simply as the discoverer of the plant. This, 
without doubt, was Lunularia, first described by Malpighi; 
yet, in the third edition of Ray’s “Synopsis Methodica 
Stirpium Britannicarum”! (augmented and revised by Dil- 
lenius), where the stellate, umbellate, and gemmiferous con- 
ditions of M. polymorpha are definitely pronounced to be 
one and the same plant, it, also, is mentioned as a form of 
the same thing. The eighth hepatic in this series is the 
“Lichen minimus foliolis laciniatis,” which Ray afterward 
declared to be simply a sterile form of Columna’s Lichen 
caule calceato. The fertile state of this, Ray had already 
recognized, so that the eight supposed species reduced them- 
selves to six, the two not already mentioned being—to place 
them in present-day genera—Targionia and Preissia. In the 
* Catalogus Plantarum Angliw,” published sixteen years 
before this first volume of the Historia, Ray includes the 
hepatics now called Marchantia, Conocephalus, and Pellia, 
but makes no remarks about them that we need to notice 
here. 
The first edition of Ray’s Synopsis? we have not seen, 
but Lindberg finds here the descriptive phrases, Muscus 
10p. cit., p. 115. 
20p. cit., p. : 
3Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Britannicarum; London, 1690. 
