ORDER V. 

 HEPATIC^. 



" Do not depreciate any pursuit which leads men to contemplate the works of 

 their Creator ! The Linnean traveller who, when you look over the pages of his 

 journal, seems to you a mere botanist, has in his pursuit, as you have in yours, an 

 object that occupies his time, and fills his mind, and satisfies his heart. It is as in- 

 nocent as yours, and as disinterested, perhaps more so, because it is not so ambi- 

 tious. Nor is the pleasure which he partakes in investigating the structure of 

 a plant less pure, or less worthy, than what you derive from perusing the noblest 

 productions of human genius." SOUTHBY. 



35. JUNGERMANNJA. Capsule solitary, raised on a stalk, globu- 



lar, bursting into 4 valves. 



36. ANTHOCEROS. Capsule solitary, raised on a stalk, long and 



linear, 2-valved, with a central column to which the seeds 

 are attached. 



37- MARCH ANT i A. Capsules several, attached to the inferior 

 surface of an umbrella-like capitulum or receptacle raised 

 on a stalk. 



38. RICCIA. Capsule sessile, globular, not splitting into valves, 

 surmounted by a short tube. 



35. JUNGERMANNIA. 



As I find it impracticable to give, by words, an accurate idea 

 of the forms of the leaves of Jungermannia, on which the deter- 



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