. 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. 186 MOSSES WITH A HAND-LENS ILLUSTRATED GLOSSARY OF BRYOLOGICAL TERMS.* HIS is not intended to be an exhaustive glossary of botanical terms, but mainly a glossary of those terms which are either confined to bryological works or are used in a somewhat different meaning when applied to mosses. Thus the common terms descriptive of leaves are omitted, except acumen and a few others that are used in a peculiar or unusual way by some authors. Very few t
. 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. 186 MOSSES WITH A HAND-LENS ILLUSTRATED GLOSSARY OF BRYOLOGICAL TERMS.* HIS is not intended to be an exhaustive glossary of botanical terms, but mainly a glossary of those terms which are either confined to bryological works or are used in a somewhat different meaning when applied to mosses. Thus the common terms descriptive of leaves are omitted, except acumen and a few others that are used in a peculiar or unusual way by some authors. Very few terms are here defined that are sufficiently well explained in the common phanerogamic botanies like Gray, Wood, or Britton and Brown. Braithwaite's " British Moss Flora," Lesquereux and James' " Manual," and Dixon and Jameson's " Handbook of British Mosses " have been largely consulted, and an attempt has been made to determine the meaning of each term according to the usage of all the authors accessible. For most of the cuts we are indebted to the kindness of Mr. H. N. Dixon, Mr. Jameson, and their publishers, who have very kindly allowed us the, use of the cuts in their " Handbook of British Mosses," a work which should be in the hands of every moss student whether English or American. Figs. 43 and 46 are from Mrs. Britton's " Ob- server " article, by consent. Terms whose meaning can be made sufficiently clear by definition are not illustrated as a rule. Acicular, needle-shaped. Applied to the beak of the operculum. Acrocarpous, having the sporophyte terminal on a stem or ordinary branch. Acrocarpous mosses can usually be easily distinguished by the erect habit, as shown in the figure. (Fig. I.) The old sporo- phyte often seems lateral in acrocarpous mosses, because the stem grows on the next year from a point just below the base of the *The figures of the Glossary are numbered independently of the rest of the boo
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