CRYPTOGAMIA Hepaticce.
G e n . C h a r . Male flowers sessile.
Capsule on a stalk rising from a sheath, of 4 valves.
Seeds attached to elastic filaments.
S p e c . C h a r . Shoots somewhat branched. Leaves
crowded, in two rows, without auricles, obovate,
oblique, finely toothed. Fruitstalks terminal.
S y n . Jungermannia asplenioides. Linn. Sp. PL 15 9 7 .
Huds. 509. With. 870. Hull. 2 7 7 . Relh. 4 3 7 .
Sibth. 308. Abbot. 252. Iledw. Theor. 1 5 1 . t. 16,
17.
Lichenastrum asplenii facie. Hill. Muse. 482, 483.
t. 69. f . 5, 6.
L. trichomanis facie, capitulis e fohorum summitate
enascentibus, majus. Dill, in Raii Syn. 1 1 2 .
FO U N D in woods and moist shady places, bearing capsules
early in the spring, and remarkable, like many of its genus,
for diffusing a sweet scent when growing in very wet situations.
Root perennial, creeping, but little branched. Stems procumbent,
slightly branched, round, smooth, leafy, not throwing
out any radicles. Leaves more or less closely crowded in
two ranks, light green, dotted, oblique, unequal, obovate,
finely and sharply toothed, without rib or auricles. Sheaths
terminal, solitary, tubular, jagged at their orifice, curved
when young, then erect. Fruitstalk four times as long as the
sheath, white and tender. Capsule black, of 4 acute valves.
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