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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 49

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[page]47.[/page] The antheridia and archegonia appear later in the season. The fruit ripens in May, and is suspended in a carpocephalum which is raised on a peduncle about one to one and one half inches long. There is a cluster of trichomes suspended at the apex of the peduncle and a similar cluster is found at its base. The trichomes found at the apex are long, linear cells with internally thickened walls. Those at the base are multicellular, and a few also unicellular and like those at the apex. The spores are small, round, and distinctly winged. PL.XV. The elaters are slender fusiform and bispiral, the spirals being of a brown color and crossing each other as they do