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Linn. Journ. XIII.; Carr. and Pears. Exs. 180. 

 Antliclia Turneri, Dumort. Rev. Jung. p. 18. 



Banks of mountain streams. (Fr. March.) 



Forming patches creeping on the ground, i to 2 

 inches diameter and radiating from a centre, 



pale yellowish green, stems 

 three or four lines long, pro- 

 cumbent, slender, flexuous 

 mostly simple, sometimes 

 irregularly divided, rootlets 

 from the under side ; leaves 

 somewhat close and regular, 

 in two rows, spreading, em- 

 8l - bracing at the base, broadly 



ovate, divided half way by an acute sinus into two 

 ovate or lanceolate sharp, almost conduplicate seg- 

 ments, fringed at the margins with large spine-like 

 teeth of unequal size (fig. 81). Colour pale yellow 

 green. Perichsetial leaves closely imbricate on all 

 sides of the calyx, differing from the cauline in 

 being quadrate, frequently broader than long, and 

 cleft for one-third of their length into three or four 

 ovate acute spiny dentate erect segments. Calyx 

 linear-oblong, slightly longitudinally plicate, or ob- 

 tusely angular, at first incurved, then erect. Cap- 

 sule ovate brown. Elaters bispiral. 



Genus 16. ADELANTHUS, Mitt. 



Involucre constituted from two to four 

 opposite scale-like leaves. Perianth tubular, 

 rather three-sided, mouth connivent, dentate, 



