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hispid at the margin with short straight setse, en- 

 closing numerous ovate 

 cellules, peduncle 

 scarcely as long as the 

 diameter of the recep- 

 tacle, striate, two-chan- 

 nelled. Female recep- 

 tacle at first covered 

 with an indusium of 

 linear scales ; when fer- 

 tile pedunculate, upper 

 surface irregular, here 

 and there depressed, un- 

 dulate, margin elevated, 

 divided beneath into 

 numerous cells, beset 

 with short setae (fig. 

 191). Fertile cells open- 

 ing vertically by a small 



fissure, and the globose pedicellate capsule is ex- 

 truded. Capsule splitting in four or six unequal 

 valves ; calyptra ruptured, leaving the remains at 

 the base of the pedicel ; proper perianth none. 



191. 



GENUS 46. FEGATELLA, Raddi. 



Female receptacle pedunculate, containing 

 from four to nine cells, opening by a vertical 

 fissure ; calyces none ; calyptra at length 

 ruptured in the cell. Male receptacle sessile 

 on the fronds, discoid. Vegetation frondose, 

 dichotomous. 



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