imbricated scales, enc are much laci- 
niate mm Gemmiferous 
Malo receptacle ses- 
prominent, membranous margin, not 
d of the epidermis of the frond.” 
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' surface, and also the iwò horizon- 
1 " fasciculi or plumy processes issuing 
from the broader end of the frond; and, 
lieu of these, that portion of the lower 
; It also loses its long 
projecting conical end, the sides of the 
frond fall outwards into the same plane 
subject, however, stage 
ation erib ae a German, till 
. Wilson lately found itin Cheshire, : 
aid has kindly communicated to me the | 
drawing which is here engraved, and the - 
following specific buracie and descrip- 
cies is usually found floating, but when 
fertile, is firmly attached to the soil in 
situations that are inundated during 
winter, where it forms extensive matted 
the frond, whose divisions are sli 
thickened in the middle, with obiak 
margins, semipellucid, and sheathed at ` 
the apex with a few membranous scales. 
Capsule globose, usually solitary, some- 
times two together, at first concealed 
within the frond, its ascending style 
lodged in a foramen opening at the upper - 
neath, when ripe, dark purple, contain- 
ing about thirty quaternary clusters o 
roughish seeds of the same colour; coate | 
c- 
tification is indeterminate in position, 
but never found ema at the forks. 
magnifed. 14 
es to be iud studied LT those ning th kinds of omens 
