. 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. Figure 118. Portion of a stem of Chilo- scyplms polyanthos rivniaris natural size. C. POLYANTHOS (L.) Corda is our only common spe- cies. It is very large, the stems sometimes reaching a foot in length and, with the leaves, being about /^^ of an inch wide. This species grows on rocks and soil in wet places and occasionally in slowly flowing water. The color is a deep green, sometimes becoming blackish; when of this color it some- 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. Figure 118. Portion of a stem of Chilo- scyplms polyanthos rivniaris natural size. C. POLYANTHOS (L.) Corda is our only common spe- cies. It is very large, the stems sometimes reaching a foot in length and, with the leaves, being about /^^ of an inch wide. This species grows on rocks and soil in wet places and occasionally in slowly flowing water. The color is a deep green, sometimes becoming blackish; when of this color it some- what resembles Plagiocliila asplcnoidcs, but the leaves are very entire and at the end of the shoots the underleaves can usually be made out clearly, as the plant tissues are quite transparent. The underleaves are rather small and are deeply bifid with very nar- row slender segments. Spores in April and May. rivularis a floating form with leaves scarcely overlapping, often more distant than those shown in the 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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