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are frequently seen, which thus form a large terminal lobe : and that, in other leaves, 
are formed smaller lobes or projections, as well acute as obtuse, which give to the 
margins a very jagged appearance. The substance is rather thin, and delicate, yet of such a 
nature as to dry very badly, shrinking considerably, and requiring a great length of lime 
to recover after immersion in water : the cellules are moderately large, ovate ; the color 
green, varying from a pale to a deeper hue. 
The perigonial leaves are generally larger than thd rest, and equally variable in figure with 
them, always situated at the extremity of the stem, by no means closely imbricated, 
nor have they the base (as is usual in the genus), particularly ventricose, nor the apex 
incurved, but rather expanded, so that the Anthers are always exposed. 
Perichcetial leaves six or seven in number, and, as far as I have yet had the oppor- 
tunity of observing, while enclosing the Germen, closely placed and imbricated, so as 
to form a cone (f. 9) ; in this state, too, their figure is very nearly oblongo-ovate, without 
any marginal incision or projection, concave. In a more advanced state of the fructifi- 
cation, they are not to be distinguished, except by their situation, from the cauline leaves, 
which they moreover exactly resemble in color and texture. 
Male Fructification in the axillae of the perigonial leaves, where the 
Anthers are placed in clusters of five or six together : each is nearly spherical, faintly 
reticulated, of a yellowish color, inclining to orange, when arrived at its full size. The 
footstalk is short and cellulose. 
Female Fructification terminal upon the stems or branches. 
Calyx none ! 
Germen (f. 9) obovate, green, tipped with a tubular style, and surrounded at the base by a 
few abortive pistilla, which are linear, or only slightly swollen at the base, and at the 
apex, under a high magnifying power, are seen to have an expanded and hollow mouth. 
Calyptra quite exposed, so as to resemble, at first sight, a calyx ; as the main branch of 
the root below, so does this at the upper extremity, appear to be a continuation of the 
stem (f. f. 7. 8). It is of an oblong or linear i-oblong figure; at the extremity, however, 
it is generally a little incrassated ; its base is of the same diameter as the stem, with 
which it likewise accords in its thick texture, as well as in color, only that it is 
somewhat paler. The style, or the rudiment of it, is at all times apparent, and just 
within the periclisetial leaves, even during the state of the ripe capsule, a few of the 
pistilla may be seen. At the apex, the calyptra opens with a vertical, but irregular 
fissure, for the emission of the capsule. 
Peduncle about half an inch in length, white, filiform, succulent, terminated by the 
Capsule; this is of a lineari-oblong figure, pale brown color, and reticulated structure, 
rather delicate, subpellucid. It opens, for the most part, into four equal linear valves, 
which often cohere at the extremity, in consequence, as it appears to me, of the 
entanglement of the filaments. Sometimes five valves are seen, and more than once 
Mr. Lyell has observed an appearance of only two valves, and these were held together 
at their apices, so as to form the exact figure of the periphery of an ellipse. 
Seeds (f. 12) disposed within the capsule in threes, and enveloped in a transparent pellicle, 
through which they are distinctly seen, in an immature state, to be of a green color; 
when more advanced (f. 13) they become brown, and the pellucid covering is not 
apparent, though they very generally hang together (if I may so express myself) in threes. 
