. Mosses with hand-lens and microscope : a non-technical hand-book of the more common mosses of the northeastern United States. -looking moss repre-sented in Fig. 94, is not very common and will notbe found readily by most students. It is so strik-ing in appearance that no one can fail to recognizeit. The spores are borne in the slender upper por-tion; the swollen and colored (lilac or purplish)lower portion is the hypophysis of the capsule, whichis covered with stomata and filled with loose tissuesuitable for the assimilation of carbon dry this portion becomes irregularly shrunke
. Mosses with hand-lens and microscope : a non-technical hand-book of the more common mosses of the northeastern United States. -looking moss repre-sented in Fig. 94, is not very common and will notbe found readily by most students. It is so strik-ing in appearance that no one can fail to recognizeit. The spores are borne in the slender upper por-tion; the swollen and colored (lilac or purplish)lower portion is the hypophysis of the capsule, whichis covered with stomata and filled with loose tissuesuitable for the assimilation of carbon dry this portion becomes irregularly shrunkenin a manner very difficult to represent in a drawing. The plants are i-a! in height, usually longerthan those tigured. The leaves are rather distant,iGURE 94. jj^g lower lanceolate, the upper narrowly obovate splachnum ampullaceum; leaf X • 1 1 1 , ■ ^\ n 11 10; capsule, ripe and unripe X 5. With a slender apex, as shown in the hgure; ail are(The plant and capsules represented serrate, with the costa percurrent or nearly so. are rather small, as they are often _, found of twice this size. 1 he spores mature m
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