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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 12

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[page]10[/page]. Anthoceros Laeris, PLATE I. fig. 1 is a small, depressed, spreading, terestrial, monoecious, or sometimes dioecious, annual, of smooth bright-green, transparent dichotomously branching, thalloid vegetation which is more or less abundently lobed and divided and closely attached to the clay or dark ground, by a dense growth of rhizoids. The regularity of branching is usually disturbed by adventitious shoots which proceed form the margin of the thallus. On making a transverse section, PL. I. fig. 3, the thallus is found to consist of several layers of cells. There is no epidermal