. Mosses with hand-lens and microscope : a non-technical hand-book of the more common mosses of the northeastern United States. up of large and small cells variously dis-posed. (See cross-section of costa of D. scopa-riiini.) Siiiileri and elou^atiitn are true Dicranahutare rare alpine forms. D scoparium ( L.) Hedw. Plants large, some-times iQc™ high, glossy yellowish green to brown-ish green, radiculose, growing in rather largetufts of medium density; leaves falcate-secund,not undulate, strongly serrate, ending in a longnarrow acumen; costa flattened, bearing 4 pro-jecting serrate lamellae at


. Mosses with hand-lens and microscope : a non-technical hand-book of the more common mosses of the northeastern United States. up of large and small cells variously dis-posed. (See cross-section of costa of D. scopa-riiini.) Siiiileri and elou^atiitn are true Dicranahutare rare alpine forms. D scoparium ( L.) Hedw. Plants large, some-times iQc™ high, glossy yellowish green to brown-ish green, radiculose, growing in rather largetufts of medium density; leaves falcate-secund,not undulate, strongly serrate, ending in a longnarrow acumen; costa flattened, bearing 4 pro-jecting serrate lamellae at the back abo\e; leat-cells all elongated and porose, packed full ofchlorophyll, in the younger leaves often contain-ing oil-globules; capsule cernuous, arcuate-cylin-dric, not striate, annulus lacking; spores niatur-sulexs- !■ u. tlisiesicns X ■ *. Cap- ing in late Summer or autumn. Common across sule and ralvntra v 5. . i • 1 the continent on various substrata. It is almostas widely diffused as Polytnchitm comimiiic, being found in all portions ofthe northern hemisphere. North America, , Asia and Figure 42a. Dicritniim stopfirium x i- «. Cap- DICRANACEAE 99


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