m 
CRYPTOGAMXA. 
HYP'NUM. Capsule with a lid: Veil smooth: Fruit-stalk 
lateral, issuing from a tubercle surrounded with scales. 
FONTINA'LIS. Capsule veiled, sessile, enveloped by the 
scales of the receptacle. 
BUXBAU'MIA. Capsule on a fruit-stalk, membranous on one 
side. 
HEPATIC^.* 
MARCHAN'TIA. Barr. FI. Calyx salver-shaped, with nu¬ 
merous anthers imbedded in its disk. 
Fert. FI. Calyx target-shaped, flowering underneath: 
Capsules bursting at their tops: Seeds attached to 
elastic fibres. 
JUNGERMAN'NIA. (Barr.FI. sessile: Capsule on a stalk, 
rising from a sheath of four valves: Seeds attached to 
elastic filaments. E.) 
TARGIO'NIA. Calyx two valved : Seeds very numerous, col¬ 
lected into a globe. 
ANTHO / CEROS. Capsules awl-shaped, two-valved: Seeds 
connected with the valves. 
BLA'SIA. Sheath cylindrical, protruding globular buds from 
its base. 
RIC'CIA. Fructifications , granules buried in the leaf: Anthers 
cylindrical, sessile on the germen, perforated by the 
style : Caps, globular, crowned by the withered anthers : 
Seeds hemispherical, on pedicles. 
* (The particular uses of Liverworts are but little understood ; neither is their delicate 
structure much more so ; though they have attracted the special attention of several emi¬ 
nent vegetable Physiologists, and have been very beautifully delineated. Nearly as diminu¬ 
tive as the genuine Mosses, like them is their general structure loosely cellular. Vid. vol. 
i. 349. Probably though in a lesser degree, they may prove astringent; to which quality 
Dioscorides would seem to allude, when he recommends their application as a stiptic for 
stanching and abating the inflammation of wounds. Their more general medicinal virtues, 
as likewise their English and Latin designations, were merely inferential, and derived from 
the fancied resemblance of these herbs to the viscus they were thus indicated to cure ; for 
as Gerard reports, with a credulity not uncommon in his age, e< It is singular good against 
the inflammations of the liver.” E.) 
