. 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. 90 MOSSES WITH A HAND-LENS F. FLAViCANS Mx. is found from New York southwards. We are indebted to Mr. R. S. Williams for the fol- lowing notes which are taken from the " Bryologist" of January, 1901: " The species grows in separate tufts as well as mingled with hygrometrica, from which it may be distinguished by the average smaller size, erect pedicel, more pointed leaves, and mouth less oblique, as well as less furrowed capsule, wh
. 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. 90 MOSSES WITH A HAND-LENS F. FLAViCANS Mx. is found from New York southwards. We are indebted to Mr. R. S. Williams for the fol- lowing notes which are taken from the " Bryologist" of January, 1901: " The species grows in separate tufts as well as mingled with hygrometrica, from which it may be distinguished by the average smaller size, erect pedicel, more pointed leaves, and mouth less oblique, as well as less furrowed capsule, which matures a week or two earlier than in hygrometrica, in this region at least, where the best specimens were collected from the 1st to the loth of June. When well ripened, the capsules are very dark reddish, with a low convex lid, not ; Mr. Williams also states that the mouth of the capsule is constantly smaller in flavicans. PHYSCOMITRIUM. The Urn Mosses. P. TURBiNATUM (Mx.) Brid., the Common Urn Moss, is com- mon on earth in conservatories, by roadsides and in old fields. It is abundant in moist places by paths in the parks of Greater New York. It must be collected in May to get the calyptra in position. Although a very near relative of the Cord Moss, it entirely lacks the peristome which is so conspicuous in that species. A mtich rarer moss, Pottia, may be found and confused with the Urn Moss, which it closely resembles. Pottia, however, is smaller, be- ing about one-half as large, matures its cap- sules in winter, and un- der a lens will be seen to have the midrib ex- current instead of end- ing below the apex of the leaf, as in the Urn Moss. There are several species of Urn Mosses, but this is much the most common and most likely to be met Figure 3^- Physcomitriwm turbinaium X 4; capsule X Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of the
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