CRYPTOGAMIA. HEPATIC^. Marchantia. 1099 
From three to five inches long, one broad, and irregularly lobed; dark 
green, shining. Fruit-stalks in the angles of the lobes, one to three 
inches high. Capsules greenish, dividing into eight or ten segments. On 
the upper surface we here and there observe certain glass-shaped conical 
cups, on short pedicles, with a wide and scolloped margin. Weis, which 
inclose about four little bodies, very finely serrated at the edges. Pol. 
In figure somewhat resembling an oak leaf; surface reticulated. Dill. 
(A very elaborate description of the structure of this plant may be seen 
in Muse. Brit. E.) 
(Star-headed Marchantia or Liver-green. E.) In wet places both 
shady and open. On wet shady walks, and on the sides of wells and 
springs. P. June—Aug. 
Var. 2. Plant smaller ; not shining. 
Fill. 77. 7 — Mich. 1 and 2 — Lob. Ohs. upper right hand fig .'— Lob. Ic. 246— 
J. B. iii. 758. 2. 
Leaves smaller and shorter than in 1 ; fine green, not shining, not reticu¬ 
lated ; densely compacted one upon another. Dill. 
On the north side of walls, and stones, and in shady areas behind houses. 
Dill. July—Aug. 
Var. 2. Calyx with eight clefts. 
Mich. 1. 5. 
M. crucia'ta. Fertile calyx with four divisions : segments tubular. 
Fill. 75. 5 — Mich. 4. Lunaria — Buxb. i. 62. 2. 
Crowded in its growth, sometimes branched, new leaves proceeding from 
the ends of the old ones, from half to one inch long, pleasant green, not 
pellucid, nor veined. Calyx with four, and sometimes five divisions. 
Dill. Fruit-stallc white, tender, brittle; one to two inches high. Stackh. 
(Cross-shaped Marchantia. E.) Shady courts and garden walks. 
P. June—Oct. 
M. hemispheric A, Leaf scolloped: fertile calyx five-cleft: hemis¬ 
pherical. 
( E. Bat. 503. E.)— Schmid. 34— Fill. 75. 2— Mich. 2. 2— FI. Fan. 762 — 
Buxb. ii. 5. 1. 
Head hemispherical, with five globules underneath. Globules bursting, 
and pouring out seeds. Linn. Leaf from half to one and a half inch long, 
concave, edge waved and scolloped; at first simple, cloven when older, 
and a young one issuing from the end. Fruit-stalks an inch high, 
brownish, naked. Dill. 
(PIemispherical Marchantia. E.) Sides of rivers and wet ditches, 
and wet rocks. P. April—May. 
M. co'nica. Leaf forked, indented: fertile calyx somewhat egg-shaped, 
with about five cells underneath. 
(E. Bot. 504. E.)— Schmid. 31.— Hedw. Theor. 25. 134 to 136— Mich. 2. 1 
— Fill. 75. 1— Vaill. 33. 8— FI. Fan. 274— Col. Ecphr. 331. 1— Park. 
1314. 4. 
Leaves pleasant pale green, slippery to the touch, creeping on the ground, 
dotted on the surface, producing new leaves from the end of the old ones. 
