. 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. 28 MOSSES WITH A HAND-LENS Family 5. The Btixbaumia BUXBAUMIACEAE. Family4 HE plants of this interesting family are small, almost or quite stemless, with leaves few or none. They grow on earth or rotten wood. Perichsetial leaves present but often disappearing long before the maturity of the capsule. Capsule very large in proportion to the size of the plant, oblique and asymmetric. Calyptra small, conical. Peristome single or double, forming a whit
. 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. 28 MOSSES WITH A HAND-LENS Family 5. The Btixbaumia BUXBAUMIACEAE. Family4 HE plants of this interesting family are small, almost or quite stemless, with leaves few or none. They grow on earth or rotten wood. Perichsetial leaves present but often disappearing long before the maturity of the capsule. Capsule very large in proportion to the size of the plant, oblique and asymmetric. Calyptra small, conical. Peristome single or double, forming a whitish cone. A most peculiar and fantastic family, the members of which will readily be recognized by a comparison of the figures given under the species. BUXBAUMIA. The drawings speak for themselves. No one who finds the queer looking objects figured here will have any difficulty in iden- tifying them. The leaves are few and are clustered at the base of the seta. They entirely disappear before the capsule ripens, so that the ma- ture plant consists of only the roughened seta with a few rhizoids at the base and the queer bug-like capsule. Mrs. Britton calls the Buxbaumias " The Humpbacked ; To the author they look like bugs on a stick. We have two species in eastern North America, Buxhau- mia aphylla L., and B. indusiata Brid. B. APHYLLA has the capsule red-brown, shin- ing, strongly flattened above; outer peristome of a single series of very short teeth; spores ma- turing from December to June, occasionally found Figure 6. mature in September. Two different views of Buxbaumia ^, . .. aphylla, X â â â Two different views, X 4. Plants growmg on 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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