. 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. MOSSES WITH A HAND-LENS 125 wet or dry. The plants are usually slender and creeping; the leaves are costate and of the shape shown in the figure. The capsules are not wrinkled and mature in late June. Plagiothecium striatellum (Brid.) Lindb., the Ribbed Hypnum, is another moss common in swamps and damp places, especially at the roots af trees and on peaty hummocks. The leaves are spreading as in the preceding, but the plants are much less creeping
. 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. MOSSES WITH A HAND-LENS 125 wet or dry. The plants are usually slender and creeping; the leaves are costate and of the shape shown in the figure. The capsules are not wrinkled and mature in late June. Plagiothecium striatellum (Brid.) Lindb., the Ribbed Hypnum, is another moss common in swamps and damp places, especially at the roots af trees and on peaty hummocks. The leaves are spreading as in the preceding, but the plants are much less creeping, the costa is absent, the capsule is plainly wrinkled when dry much as in Hypnum curvifolium (See Fig. 54), and at the basal angles are a number of inflated hyaline cells as shown in the plate. The spores mature in early May in the vicinity of New York City, where both this and the preceding species are common. The wrinkled capsules, spreading ecostate leaves, and early season of maturing spores make this an easy species to identify. The Hooked Mosses. Growing on stones, earth, and decayed wood in shaded swamps, edges of brooks, and shores of lakes and streams, will be found another type of Hypnum with strongly secund and hooked leaves. These mosses belong to the sub-genus Harpidium. As a. Figure 59. Hypnum uncinatum X i; capsules X 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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