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merits ; the lesser lobe nearly plane, and not more 

 than one-third the size of the other, in like man- 

 ner divided into two lanceolate acute segments, 

 the whole elegantly bordered with long capillary, 



50. 

 flexuose cilia (fig. 50), rarely forked, and jointed 

 throughout ; brownish- 

 green or purplish- 

 brown. Stipules quad- 

 rate, broader than 

 the stem, adpressed, 

 unequally lobed at the 

 end, along the whole 

 margin fringed with 

 long cilia, which are 

 narrower than on the 

 leaves(fig. 51). Perichae- 



i,d tial leaves, two or three 



mac at the base of each 

 calyx, closely adpressed, 

 widely ovate, cut into two or three unequal seg- 

 ments, and ciliate along the margin. Calyx thin and 

 delicate, obovate, mouth small, much contracted, 

 unequally toothed, capsule ovate, dark brown. 



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