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BLASIA. Sp. pi. 1605. (Michel, gen. pag. 14. 

 /. 7. Dillen. mufc. /. 3 i./. 7. bon. Oeder. Dan. 

 t. 45. opt.) 



Dwarf Blafia. Anglis. 



On the perpendicular banks of ditches and rivu- 

 lets in a fahdy or gravelly foil, near the furface 

 of the water, in damp or Ihady places, but 

 rare. Mr. Talden. X. 



Il grows fiat upon the ground, in a circle or patch, 

 compofed of numerous thin, green, pellucid 

 leaves, mark'd with a few whitifh veins near 

 the bafe, divided and fubdividcd into obtufe 

 fegments, obfcurely crenated on the edges. 

 The margins of the leaves are a little elevated, 

 but the interior parts adhere clofe to the ground, 

 by a fine down, which ferves the purpofe of 

 roots. 



Its habit refcmbles fome kinds of Lichen or Juyi- 

 gerrnannia^ but its fruftifications are more like 

 thofe of the Mnimn. 



The fuppofed male frudlifications, when magni- 

 fied, rcfemble a Florence flafl-c ; or, to the 

 r.aked eye, a fmall green bulb, having a hol- 

 low cylindrical neck, of the fize of a hcg'^j 

 briftle, about one- eighth of an inch long, ter-j 

 minated with a little granulated head, which 

 foon falls off, and leaves the neck with an open' 

 piouth, like a bottle without a cork. Several 



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