1098 CRYPTOGAMIA. HEPATICiE. Targionia. 
TARGIO'NIA.* Calyx of two valves, compressed, containing 
at bottom a capsule, nearly globular, many-seeded. See 
vol. 1, p. 370. 
T. hypophyl'la. Fructifications solitary : calyx open. Dicks. 
E. Bot. 287— Mich. 3, Targionia — Dill. 78. 9— Buxb. 1.61. 4— Col. Ecphr. 
l,p. 331, f. 333. 
Not larger than the little finger nail. Green, not pellucid; rough with 
white rising dots. Leaf heart-spear-shaped, at first green, afterwards 
dark purple, blackish underneath. Fructification at the end, on the 
underside, the size of a vetch. Calyx black; opening, containing the 
fruit covered with a yellowish skin, and filled with a yellowish pulp 
which rubs to powder between the fingers, and stains them. Col. Ecphr. 
Single-fruited Targionia. Moist heaths and sides of ditches, rare. 
Near Dawlish, Devonshire. (Near the Tarbet of Cantire, on the con¬ 
fines of Knapdale. Lightfoot. E.) P. March—May. 
T. spel^rocar'pus. Fructifications crowded together: calyxes perfo¬ 
rated at the end. Dicks. 8. 
E. Bot. 299— Mich. 3. Sphasrocarpos — Dill. 78. 17. 
Calyx reticulated like the leaf of a Jungermannia. Capsules sessile; 
brownish when ripe. Dicks. The thick tops of this plant have much the 
appearance of some of the smaller Mosses, and have, doubtless, on that 
account been overlooked, but they have a glaucous hue which instantly 
announces them to the eye accustomed to observe them. Woodw. 
(Clustered Targionia. E.) Sphcerocarpos terrestris. E. Bot. Clover- 
fields, Heyden and Norwich. Mr. Bryant. Very common on our clover- 
fields in autumn, on sandy loams with Riccia glauca , the first year of the 
clover. Mr. Woodward. 
MARCHAN'TIA.f Barr. FI. Calyx salver-shaped: Anthers 
numerous, imbedded in its disk. 
Fert. FI. Calyx target-shaped, flowering on the under 
side: Capsules opening at the top: Seeds fixed to 
elastic fibres. 
For a more particular account of the parts of fructification, see vol. i. p. 
351 and 369. 
M. polymor'fha. Leaf bluntly lobed: calyx of the fertile flowers 
mostly ten-cleft. 
Schmid. 29. 1 to 30— Hedw. Theor. 24. 127 to 131, fructification — E. Bot. 
210— Dill. 76. 6. E. F.— Mich. 1. 1 and 3— Lon. i. 319. 2— Fuchs. 473. 
(misprinted 476)— Trag. 523— Matth. 1038— Lob. Obs. 646. 1. Ic. ii. 246. 
1— Dod. 473. 2 —Ger. Em. 1565. 3—Ger. 1376— Matth. a. C. B. 732— 
Gars. 300. 
* (So named by Micheli in honour of his friend and fellow-labourer in natural history 
Dr. Cyprian Targioni of Florence, whose valuable museum has been highly celebrated. E.) 
f (Named after M. Marchant, a French naturalist; author of some ingenious papers 
in the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences. E.) 
