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A brief description of nine species of Hepaticae found in the vicinity of Iowa City by Mary F. Linder, 1886

A brief description of nine species of Hepaticae found in the vicinity of Iowa City by Mary F. Linder, 1886, Page 7

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guished from them by observing that while the lichens are usually dry and leathery, the hepaties are more loosely cellular or spongy in texture presenting a moist surface under pressure. They vary in size from forms so miniscule as to be invisible to the unaided eye, to others several inches in length. They are all chlorophyll bearing plants and vary in color from pale green to deep bronze green and even brown. The under surfaces of the fronds, the scales that cover the apical cells, and in some of the Jungermaniacae, the fruit capsules are often beautifully bright purple-tinted, and in the fading antheridial disks of Marchantia polymorpha, the old wall of the antheridia br-