. Mosses with a hand-lens; a non-technical handbook of the more common and more easily recognized mosses of the north-eastern United States. Mosses. an inhabitant of elevated inland re- gions. The cap- sules, however, ap- pear to become curved and fur- rowed with age. Var. FiTZGER- ALDii (R. and C). I cannot agree with Mrs. Britton, whom I followed in the First edi- tion, in making this a synonym of var. orthocarpa. as it appears to be a southern and seaboard form, being very abundant about New York city. The capsules are only lightly .striate until very old, and the mouth is slightly or not a
. Mosses with a hand-lens; a non-technical handbook of the more common and more easily recognized mosses of the north-eastern United States. Mosses. an inhabitant of elevated inland re- gions. The cap- sules, however, ap- pear to become curved and fur- rowed with age. Var. FiTZGER- ALDii (R. and C). I cannot agree with Mrs. Britton, whom I followed in the First edi- tion, in making this a synonym of var. orthocarpa. as it appears to be a southern and seaboard form, being very abundant about New York city. The capsules are only lightly .striate until very old, and the mouth is slightly or not at all oblique. It has been found along Lake Champlain and may occur near the Great Lakes. In the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for Novem- ber, 1895, Mrs. Britton describes and figures a very interesting mountain form with pedicels strongly curved backwards which straighten in drying so as to assume the normal form. D. cerviculata (Hedw.) Schimp. grows in wet places, typically on peat. It appears to be rare. The plants are way than the FiGuRjs 17. t^. Dicranslla hetsromalla Pitngcrdldii. b. Cap- sule of the same X 10. l. Capsules of different ages. smaller every last,. Figure iS Capsules and peristome of D. cerviculata. Bry. (From the leaves are less falcate,with a half-sheathing base, often near ly entire; capsule arcuate and gibbous, â ivHh a clearly strumose neck. The spores ma- ture in summer, according t o European au- Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Grout, Abel Joel, 1867-. New York, The Author and The O. T. Louis Company
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