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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 53

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[page]51.[/page] are two lobed, the dorsal lobe is roundish ovate, the ventral, smaller, sub-oval & oblique; the margins nearly entire, and frequently incurved. The amphigastria are round-obovate with reflexed margins. The fruit which ripens during the latter part of June is found on the ventral surface of the stem. It is small, globular and so short stalked as to be almost sessile. It is surrounded by a persistant [persistent?] parianthand a delicate calpytra which are broken through by the upward growth by the sporogonium. Plate XVII. fig. 3 represents the fruit in an unripe state. Fig.