HEPATICE. (LIVERWORTS.) 97 
Mountains, New Hampshire, Oakes. — A small species, growing in compact 
masses, of a whitish or silvery hue. (Eu.) 
« « Leaves incubous; the apex of each leaf lying on the base of the next. 
29. FRULLANIA, Raddi. (Tab. 22.) 
Frueti fication terminal on proper branches. Involucral leaves 2 or 4, two- 
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Elaters truncate at both ends, with one spi re, adherent to the valves, erect. 
Spores large, irregular, minutely muricate. Inflorescence dicecious. Anthe- 
ridia in the saccate base of closely imbricated 2-lobed perigonial leaves. Stem- 
leaves 2-lobed ; the lower lobe usually an inflated sleceaaed appendage (au- 
ricle). Amphigastria entire or 2-toothed, throwing out rootlets from their base. 
= personal name % 
ma, Montagne. Stems creeping, simply pinnate ; leaves 
mes Gtdcalix. concave, decurved, marked in the middle by a necklace-form 
line; auricle oblong-club-shaped, emarginate at the lower end; involucral sas: 
unequally 2-cleft; the dorsal segment oblong, ee nearly entire, the ventral 
awl-shaped ; amphigastria oblong, flat, — ifn obtuse ; perianth pear- 
shaped, 3-sided, obtusely keeled beneath. — and atkins frequent. — Fo- 
liage glossy, varying from deep nce to dark green. (Tab. 22.) 
arisci, Nees. Near No.1; distinguished by its more rigid 
¢astria with revolute margins. — A variety only of this species is attributed 
to neo country, with obtuse leaves, expanded auricles, and plane amphigastria. 
(G. L. & N. Syn. Hepat.) (Eu.) 
3. F. Dru Tayl. Stems sparingly branched ; leaves reddish, 
lax, ger brea! obtuse; auricles decurved ; amphigastria minute, a 
bifid; perianth ovate from a narrow base, retuse at the apex. — Bark of trees 
Louisiana. ae small species. 
F. Caroliniana, Sulliv. Stem 6”~12" long, rather wide, irregularly 
branched ; leaves closely ppsaeari inne auricle small, elongated, 
tant from the stem, with a style in phigasttia ovate-rotund, double 
the width of the stem, bifid, its aint aid perianth pyrif 
above, obtusely carinate beneath. — Trees, North Carolina, near 
amphigastria roundish, plane, er subserrate, perianth oblong-obo- 
Pp iis “lheove: keeled beneath.— On stones, in mountain rivulets of the 
Pmt man {Eu.) 
6. FE. Virgimica, Lehm. Stems creeping, vaguely branched; leaves 
nearly ovate, entire, concave, the auricle sometimes expanded into eae 
lamina; amphigastria round-ovate, double the width of the stem, — 
anth pear-shaped, rather compressed, tuberculate, 4-keeled 
