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pifilla. BLASIA. Sp. pi 1605. (Michel, gen. pag. 14. 



/. 7. Billen. mufc. /. 31./- 7. hon. Oeder. Dan. 

 t. 45. opt.) 



I>warf Blafia. Anglis. 

 _ ' On tlie perpendicular banks of ditches and rivu- 

 lets in a fandy or gravelly foil, near the furface 

 of the water, in damp or fhady places, but 

 rare. Mr. TaUen. X. 



It grows flat upon the ground, in a circle or patch, 



. compofed of numerous thin, green, pellucid 

 leaves, mavk'd with a few whitifli veins near 

 the bafe, divided and fubdivided into obtufe 

 fegments, obfcurely crenated on the edges. 

 The margins of the leaves are a little elevated, 

 but the interior parts adhere clofe to the ground, 

 by a line down, which ferves the purpofe of 

 toots. , 



Its habit refembles fome kinds of Lichen or Jun- 

 zermannia. but its frudlifications are more like 

 thofe of the Mnium. 



The fuppofed male frudifications, when magni- 

 fied, refemble a Florence flaflc ; or, to the 

 naked eye, a fmall green bulb, having a hol- 

 low cylindrical neck, of the fize of a hog's 

 briftle, about one-eighth of an inch long, ter- 

 jninated with a little granulated head, which 

 foon falls off, and leaves the neck with an open 

 niouth, like a bottle without a cork. Several 



