Handbook of British Hepaticae : containing descriptions and figures of the indigenous species of Marchantia, Jungermannia, Riccia and Anthoceros . Dum. Stem ascending, simple, leaves rather re-mote, accumbent, orbicular, entire ; stipulesnone, perianth terminal, cylindrically ovate,quadrifid. Jimgcrmannia sphaerocarpa, Hook. Br. 74; Gott. and Rabh. Exs. No. 186; Pears. Exs. No. 67 ; Cooke Hep. , 66. Aplozia sphcerocarpa, Dum. Hep. 61. In damp places. (Fr. Early Spr.) 174 HANDBOOK OF BRITISH HEPATIC^E. Growing in ratherStems about 4 inch dense pale green tufts. g
Handbook of British Hepaticae : containing descriptions and figures of the indigenous species of Marchantia, Jungermannia, Riccia and Anthoceros . Dum. Stem ascending, simple, leaves rather re-mote, accumbent, orbicular, entire ; stipulesnone, perianth terminal, cylindrically ovate,quadrifid. Jimgcrmannia sphaerocarpa, Hook. Br. 74; Gott. and Rabh. Exs. No. 186; Pears. Exs. No. 67 ; Cooke Hep. , 66. Aplozia sphcerocarpa, Dum. Hep. 61. In damp places. (Fr. Early Spr.) 174 HANDBOOK OF BRITISH HEPATIC^E. Growing in ratherStems about 4 inch dense pale green tufts. g, ascending, thread-like, waved, and simple, attachedby white radicles. Leavesdistantly and bifariouslyplaced, in barren shootssmallest at the base and ex-tremity, in fertile largest to-wards the calyx, orbicular,a little concave and de-current, mostly horizontal,spreading, sometimes to-wards the apex, erect (), pale green. Perichsetialleaves more ovate, alwayslarger. Calyx oblong, in-clining to obovate, without angles, cut at the apexinto four large acute teeth (fig. 128). Capsulespherical, brown, shining. Elaters short, 127. Aplozia riparia, Taj/., Bum. Rooting, leaves obovate, obtuse or subemar-ginate, perichaetial saccate, spreading, squar-rose. Perianth pear-shaped, plicate at the apex,compressed frontally, mouth contracted, den-ticulate. Jungermannia\riparia,\ayl. Trans. Bot. II., 43 ; Gott. and Rab. Exs. No. 428 ;Cooke Hep. fig. 69. Aplozia riparia, Dum. p. 63. var. minor, Carr. and Pears. Exs. No. 168,169. HANDBOOK OF BRITISH HEPATIOE. 175 Stems procumbent, branched. Leaves scarcelyoverlapping, embracing the stem at their base,roundish or oblong, concave, and not toothed atthe margin. Calyx terminal, obovate, plaited atthe apex. Leaves more distant,concave, broader and rounder thanin Aplozia pumila, with larger cells(fig. 129). It may be distinguishedfrom , with which it waslong confounded, by the palercolour, larger size, th
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