. Mosses with hand-lens and microscope : a non-technical hand-book of the more common mosses of the northeastern United States. ■u,/./,/r \ FiGLiRt 201. Amblysleqie/la sublilis (From Bry. Eur.) 376 MOSSES WITH HAND-LENS AND MICROSCOPE A. subtilis (Hedw.) Loeske. Plants small, in thin closely woven dark-greenmats; leaves rather distant, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, slenderly long-acuminate, narrowed to the insertion, not decurrent, entire, appressed when dry, long; costa short and faint or lacking; median cells oblong-hex-agonal, 2-3:1 ; alar cells quadrate to transversely elongated
. Mosses with hand-lens and microscope : a non-technical hand-book of the more common mosses of the northeastern United States. ■u,/./,/r \ FiGLiRt 201. Amblysleqie/la sublilis (From Bry. Eur.) 376 MOSSES WITH HAND-LENS AND MICROSCOPE A. subtilis (Hedw.) Loeske. Plants small, in thin closely woven dark-greenmats; leaves rather distant, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, slenderly long-acuminate, narrowed to the insertion, not decurrent, entire, appressed when dry, long; costa short and faint or lacking; median cells oblong-hex-agonal, 2-3:1 ; alar cells quadrate to transversely elongated: monoicous; capsuleohlong-cylindric^ nearly or quite symmetric and erect; annulus present; cilia rudimentaryor lacking; spores from August to September. On bases of hardwood trees incool swampy places; not rare. A. confervoides (Brid.) Loeske is the only other one of our minute species TO. Figure 202. Amblyslegiella (after Cheney), i. A. lonfervoiJes: a, leaf; A, cells from alar region;<, median cells of American plant; c, median cells of European plant; ■/, apical cells from American plant;./- apical tells from European plant. 2. A. Sp^ucei: a, leaf; A, alar celh; c, median cells; </, apical A. subtilis: a, eat: i, alar cells; c, median cells; i/. apical cells. 4. A. minutissuna: a, leaf: /, alarct^lls; f, median cells; ./. apical cells. 5, A. aJnata: a, leaf; b, alar cells; c, median cells; d, apical by 43 diameters and leaf cells bv 290 diameters. HYPNACEAE 377 occurring with any frequency. It is a smaller plant than the last, growing onmoist stones or ledges. Its leaves will average about -5 the length of those ofsubti/is, are ecostate and nearly or quite entire; quadrate or transversely elongatedcells numerous; capsules curved andiiicllued; peristome wi/h cilia; spores in reference to Cheneys figures it will be seen that he il
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