. Mosses with hand-lens and microscope : a non-technical hand-book of the more common mosses of the northeastern United States. w close together,forming dense thin mats of dark lance-like young sporophytes appearearly in spring as soon as the snow ismelted. By the middle of the summer thecapsules often decay beyond recognitionand the seta breaks from the plant at thetouch. Unless one has become very familiar with Cerato-doii it is not always easy to recognize it without ma-ture capsules. The leaves may be entire or slightly denticulateat apex, and the costa is sometimes percurrent or
. Mosses with hand-lens and microscope : a non-technical hand-book of the more common mosses of the northeastern United States. w close together,forming dense thin mats of dark lance-like young sporophytes appearearly in spring as soon as the snow ismelted. By the middle of the summer thecapsules often decay beyond recognitionand the seta breaks from the plant at thetouch. Unless one has become very familiar with Cerato-doii it is not always easy to recognize it without ma-ture capsules. The leaves may be entire or slightly denticulateat apex, and the costa is sometimes percurrent or even excurrent. Theupper leaf - cells aresometimes slightlypapillose on the underside. The stems some-times become seven oreight centimeters longin shaded places. When the capsuleshave fully maturedthey shrink when drvand become peculiar furrow-ing and the dark richcolor of the capsules,a color called purple by the older botanists butwhich is really a very dark chestnut or red-brown,make it easy to recognize. The peristome is FituiRi; 37.•\imulus, peristome, and leaf-base and apex of CeraliiJnn
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