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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 4

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2. simpler forms still needed her protecting care. Their small often minute size, their peculiar structure and fructification, make them objects of interest to the observer. They form part of a natural group of plants, the Bryophyta, which stands about midway between the lowest and highest forms of vegetable life, and combine in their structure features which represent the two vegetative types - the thalophytic - or that in which the plants have no true foliage, and the cormophytic, in which the differentiation into stem and leaves is more or less perfect. Mr. Austin found their resemblance to the former so great, that he believed them to be only a higher development of some form of fresh water