Anthoceros punctatus, Linn.
Frond roundish, and lobed in a stellate
manner, the lobes broad, and without nerves,
flat, crisped at the edges. Involuc re c yl indrical.
Anthoceros punctatus, Linn. Sp. 16 0 6 ; Eng.
Bot. t. 1537; Hook. Muse. Brit. 216; Cooke
Hep. fig. 194; Carr, and
Pears. Exs. No. 210, 211.
On clay or bare soil.
Fronds attached by fibrous
radicles to the ground, and
spreading in a circular manner,
the centre depressed, and
concave, their margin lobed
and more or less deeply
sinuated or pinnatifid, the
segments oblong and obtuse.
Colour bright shining green,
several dots appear on the
surface which are the male
flowers, in the form of black
imbedded warts, with a torn
margin. The capsules arise
like blades of grass, each from
a sheath, and are cylindrical,
tipped with a veil when young, bursting when
ripe into two valves, with a parallel partition
(fig. 200).
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Anthoceros Isevis, Linn.
L a rg e r than A . punctatus. Frond smooth
and flat. Mouth of the involucre more broadly
rough.
Anthoceros loevis, Linn. Sp. 160 6 ; Lindenb.
S yn . Hepat. 1 1 3; Cooke
Hep. fig. 193; Carr, and
Pears. Exs. No. 212, 213;
Eng. Bot. t. 1538.
On wet slopes, sides of
ditches, &c.
Fronds larger than in A.
punctatus, lobed, the segments
dilated, rounded,and waved; in
tJiat species they are round and
entire, not sinuated. The colour
in this species is darker green,
and it is later in fruit (fig. 201).