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CRYPTOGAMIA. HEPATICiE. Blasia. 
Dill. Barren Jlowers on the leaf, resembling warts. Linn. Fruit-stalks 
three or four inches high, transparent, very tender. Common calyx , five 
cells bursting at the base, often varying in number from some proving 
abortive. Seeds when ripe hanging out attached to threads, having the 
appearance of the woolly substance which contains the seeds of Lycoper- 
dons • Woodw. Leaves in large clusters, indented, blunt, green, with 
several white tubercles. 
(Conical Marchantia. E.) On the ground on the banks of brooks in 
shady places, and sometimes on rocks. Dillenius. Very common, but I 
have only found it in fruit on the shady banks of a ditch at Ditchingham, 
Norfolk, where I have observed it for some years. Mr. Woodward. In 
a wet ditch near Belsey Bridge, Ditchingham. Mr. Stone. Road from 
Kingshill to Cam, Gloucestershire, in fruit. Mr. Baker. (Stream side, 
between Pains wick and the Edge, in fruit. Mr. O. Roberts. E.) 
P. March—April. 
M. androVtYNA, Leaf forked, segments strap-shaped: fertile calyx 
entire, hemispherical. 
Dicks. H. S. — {E. Bot. 2545. E.)— Dill. 75. 3. A. C. — Mich. 2. 3 — Dill. 
75. 3. B. 
Shoots strap-shaped, forked, dotted; often notched at the end; mid-rib 
blackish. Web. Fruit-stalk terminal, half to one inch high. Plant 
green, strap-shaped, smooth, flat, in forked divisions. Dill. (Dr. Hooker 
suspects that the fig. in E. Bot. above cited, (excluding the two lower), 
rather belongs to M. hcemisphcerica. 
Androgynous Marchantia. E.) Under wet rocks on the mountains of 
Scotland. Dickson, ii. 17. 
BLA'S1A. # Barr. FI. solitary, imbedded in the substance of 
the leaf. 
Fert. FI. Capsule egg-shaped, one-celled, crowned with 
a tube through which the seeds escape. See vol. i. 
pp. 352 and 371. 
B. pusil'la. 
{Hook. Jung. 82.83. 84 — E. Bot. 1328. E.) — Schmid. Blasia. — Hedw. Theor. 
27. 156 to 164— Dill. 31. 7— Mich. 7, Blasia — FI. Dan. 45. 
Seeds when ripe flowing out of a cup-like cylindrical vessel, so small that 
their figure is not discernible to the naked eye. Linn. Suec. n. 1053. 
Leaves in a circle from one to two inches in diameter, deep purple at the 
base, green at the edges, jagged. Grows in a circular form in shady 
places. Leaves thin, green, pellucid, with whitish veins towards the 
base, waved at the edge, cloven at the ends. Fruit-stalk one-eighth of 
an inch high, several rising in succession from near the ends of the leaves. 
Dill. (It bears capsules in the Spring months: gemma throughout the 
whole year. E.) + 
* (Named by Micheli, after Blasi, an Italian monk, addicted to the study of Botany. 
E.) 
j- (‘ Besides the means of increase by seed, some of the Jungermannice , like most other 
Cryptogamous plants, possess the property of propagating their kind by gemma; in the 
same way as many species of Allium , Polygonum viviparum, &c. among the Phsenoga. 
mou’s. Hook. E.) 
