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Anthoeeros punctatus, Linn. 



Frond roundish, and lobed in a stellate 

 manner, the lobes broad, and without nerves, 

 flat, crisped at the edges. Involucre cylin- 

 drical. 



Anthoeeros punctatus, Linn. Sp. 1606; Eng. 

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

 Hep. fig. 194; Carr, 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 do-s 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) 



