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Each leaf is divided into two or three obtufe or 

 round fegments, a little finuated and crifpedon 

 the edges. •' 



From the centre of the leaves, out of a red cc^ljx^ 

 arifes a fhort, cylindrical 'vagina^ with a quadri- 

 fid rim, out of which grows a pellucid, tubuhir, 

 filvery, tender peduncle, about two inches high, 

 bearing at the top a glol»ilar anthera, of a 

 blackifli green colour, which burfts into four 

 roundifli, ova), fmooth fegments, in the centre 

 of which are black, elaftic hairs, exploding a 

 yellowifh brown powder. 

 Linnireus fancies the cnthera (which remains feflile 

 in the calyx for fome time during the Winter, 

 before it flioots up upon the peduncle in the 

 Spring) to be a piftil, as in regular flowers -, 

 around which may be found, he fays, fome 

 fmall y?t7«2/>^, about feven in number. Flor^ fa- 

 ce . No. 1047. ...,., 



The manner in which this plant encreafes, is by 

 fhooting out new leaves from the fegments of 

 the old ones, in the Autumn. Scop. Carniol. no. 

 1 35 1. 



phiiuis 7 A. J' ^caulis, fronde oblonga fmuata pinqui. Sp. pi. 

 1602. {Michel, gen. t. a^. f. 2. Pluk. dm. t. 42./. 

 2. fine fruElific. Dillen. mufc- t. 74- /• 42- opt. 

 Vail. Paris, t. 19./. 4.'') 

 Jagged flippery Jungermannia. Anglis. 

 In quaking bogs, mix'd with other moffes. IV. 



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