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SPECIES HEPATICARUM 



AUGTORE 



Franz STEI'HAXI 



(Suite.) 



SPHtEROCARPUS Micheli, 1729. 



Plante frondosae. parvcC, terricolae, virides, planae et tenerrimae, arcle 

 repentes, dichotome multiramosae, radicellis longiusculis solo affixœ, apice 

 [irofiiiide iiicLso-bilobiL' ibideniqiie celliili.s ciirvaliin-ereclis clav;itis oh- 

 tecla*. Costa lata, haud producta, 'i-'ô celliilas crassa, sensim in alas lenei'- 

 rimas attenuata. Raini adventivi antici, e celliilis alarum orti. Inflorescentia 

 dioic<'i. Flores femiuei antici, valde numerosi. Involucra pro planta nia- 

 xiina. nionogyna, inlordiini bi vel trij^'yna, oblique inserta et versus a|)icoin 

 I)lanla' iiiiLinlia. plus minus pyrifoniiia vel subcylindrica, ore apicali jilus 

 minus angustalo. (Mlifplra basi bistraUi, apice unistrata, facile destrucla 

 et ante cafisula- nialiiril.ilcni cvanida. (jipsnla cliIoropliyHifcra s|ilia'iica, 

 pariete uriislraUi inagiiisipH' ((.'llulis lorniala. pcdiccllo paivu chloi-opliylli- 

 fero facile dcstructo. Spor.'r Ictf.K'dra-. ciiliciil;! \ali(i,i. varie lain('II;il;i, 

 plus minus liirta. Sjior.r juv(!nil(!s anie niaturilaleni capsuhr in f^di'baiii 

 .'iKgregat;!*, parietibus capsula' baud adlia-n^ites, in fluidocapsulari aggiv- 

 (/alim natalités. IClateies nulli: adsuiit lamen c(dlula' steriles sporis niixla- 

 et minores, oleifer.'e. spliaîricji*, pariete leiier.i. nulriciila' siioniiiim. Floi-rs 



iiniHCuli antici in fronde minore et lon^ius rauiusa, e niedid cosi rii, 



»a-pr; III ramiilis nascentibiis aKKi'<'k'ali et iiiargiiKMii deiisc! l(!genles. 



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