79° CRYPTOGAMIA ALGM. 



The leaves of this are pellucid and flippery, of a 

 pale green, and fometimes a fufcous green co- 

 lour, very variable in fize and figure, being 

 froth a quarter of an inch to two inches long, 

 and from i-8th to i-3d of an inch wide, grow- 

 ing fometimes proftrate and fometimes ereft, ir- 

 regularly fnuated or jagged on the edges, and 

 ^ V - having downy radicles growing out of the 

 middle nerve on the under fide. 



The leaves which produce the anthera are lefs thaa 

 the others, commonly proftrate, and more jag- 

 ged, the fegments narrower, and often fubdi- 

 vided into two or three lobes. From the edges 

 of thefe leaves, or the angles of their fegments, 

 arife white, pellucid peduncles, one or two 

 inches high, having long, cylindrical, pale green 

 vagina at their bafe, and oval or elliptical fhin- 

 ing black anthers on their fummits, which burft 

 into four oval-lanceolate fegments. 



The other leaves, which are Wider, taller, lefs di- 

 vided, mor« rigid, often cret^, and growing in 

 . clufters, are defliitute of aniher^^ but, inftead 



thereof, have numerous green minute grains, 

 or warts, growing along their middle, and 

 fometiiTies out of their curled edges, which arc 

 cither feeds, or the rudiments of future leaves. 

 This plant may therefore not improperly be 

 confidered as di^fcieusy having a fort of male 

 and female frudifications on diftind individuals 

 of the fame fpecics. - 



J. acaujis. 



