. Mosses with hand-lens and microscope : a non-technical hand-book of the more common mosses of the northeastern United States. Figure 42a. Dicritniim stopfirium x i- «. Cap- DICRANACEAE 99. A most variable species, grading into the next so that some sterile forms cannot with certainty be determined. A variety with striate capsules is not rare in New England, but so far as I can find ithas not been given a name. The leaves maybe nearly entire and very slightly undulateabove, but these variations are rare. In the western part of our range one mavcollect D. majtis Smith. It closelv resemblesI),
. Mosses with hand-lens and microscope : a non-technical hand-book of the more common mosses of the northeastern United States. Figure 42a. Dicritniim stopfirium x i- «. Cap- DICRANACEAE 99. A most variable species, grading into the next so that some sterile forms cannot with certainty be determined. A variety with striate capsules is not rare in New England, but so far as I can find ithas not been given a name. The leaves maybe nearly entire and very slightly undulateabove, but these variations are rare. In the western part of our range one mavcollect D. majtis Smith. It closelv resemblesI), scopiirniiii, but is larger with longer andmore regularly secund leaves, antl has clus-tered setas as in D. uiidii/aluin. D. Bonjeani DeNot. (D. paluslrc L. and j. Manual). Although distinct inits typical form, this species so frequentlygrades towards and into D. scoparium thatthe amateur is almost sure to confuse thetwo species. To increase the difficultv, thetypical form is rarely met with, though thevarieties are common. The undulations inthe moist leaves, of which many authors makeso much, I find utterly worthless so far asdistinguishing the species is concerned, asthey
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