. 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. 98 MOSSES WITH A HAND-LENS. Figure 42. Bryum roseum X 1; leaf and capsule X 4- trees in rich peaty soil. Although common, it seldom fruits in either America or England, but reproduces freely by its stolons. The antheridia mature in late August or early September, and the male heads are so large and conspicuous that it is easy to find them in almost any locality where the species grows. The antheridia are so large as to be easily seen with a hand-
. 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. 98 MOSSES WITH A HAND-LENS. Figure 42. Bryum roseum X 1; leaf and capsule X 4- trees in rich peaty soil. Although common, it seldom fruits in either America or England, but reproduces freely by its stolons. The antheridia mature in late August or early September, and the male heads are so large and conspicuous that it is easy to find them in almost any locality where the species grows. The antheridia are so large as to be easily seen with a hand- lens. One who has access to a. compound microscope should not fail to study the antherozoids with high powers. L., the Common or Matted Bryum. There is no particular reason for calling this species " matted " except to translate its scientific name, but it is by all odds the most common species. It grows among thin grass in open fields, around the edges of ledges and bare spots of soil, and on old ash heaps; usually in dry places. It is often associated with Punaria. There are two or three species so closely related to it that it is almost impossible to distinguish them with a lens, but this is so much more common than any of the others that in nine cases out of ten anything answering to the following description and figures will be the Common Bryum. The size and general appear- ance of the plants are well represented in the cuts. The leaves are plainly bordered; the costa is excurrent; the antheridia. 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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