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Anthoceros punctatus, Linn, 



Frond roundish, and lobed in a stellate 

 manner, the lobes broad, and without nerves, 

 flat, crisped at the edges. Involucre cylin- 

 drical. 



Anthoceros punctatus, Linn. Sp. 1606; Eng. 

 Bot. t. 1537; Hook. Muse. Brit. 216; Cooke 



Hep. fig. 194; Cam and 

 Pears. Exs. No. 210, 211. 



On clay or bare soil. 



Fronds attached by fibrous 

 radicles to the ground, and 

 spreading in a circular man- 

 ner, the centre depressed, and 

 concave, their margin lobed 

 and more or less deeply 

 sinuated or pinnatifid, the 

 segments oblong and obtuse. 

 Colour bright shining green, 

 several dots appear on the 

 surface which are the male 

 flowers, in the form of black 

 imbedded warts, with a torn 

 margin. The capsules arise 

 like blades of grass, each from 

 a sheath, and are cylindrical, 

 tipped with a veil when young, bursting when 

 ripe into two valves, with a parallel partition 

 (fig. 200). 



200. 



