Many people at the university, the Buffalo airport and especially The Buffalo News, can recall the infamous visit of the Thallus of Marchantia. It began with an innocent notice Dec. 15, 1964 in The ...

Late-night cramming for a Biology 119 final exam launched the most infamous hoax in UB history. Intrigued by the tongue-on-palette sound of “Marchantia” (the moss-like liverwort plant) and “thallus” ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 44, No. 6 (Jun., 1957), pp. 505-513 (9 pages) The thallus structure in the Marchantiales has been studied. The thalli have been classified into three categories,. 1).

1. Twelve to sixteen archegonia are borne in each female receptacle, usually three to four in each quadrant, although as many as six were counted in a single quadrant of a receptacle. 2. Although ...