. 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. 96 MOSSKS WITH A ',NS. FiGURiS 40. Philonotis fontana X I; leaf, capsule, and male head X 10. dom appearing in sterile mats. Although Philonotis is common, the sporophyte is infrequent. The capsules mature in May or June. Family 17. Bryaceae. The Bryom Family. HE capsules of the Bryum Family are nearly always drooping and frequently have a well marked neck when dry. The peristome is double and well developed. (See glossary under "Peri
. 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. 96 MOSSKS WITH A ',NS. FiGURiS 40. Philonotis fontana X I; leaf, capsule, and male head X 10. dom appearing in sterile mats. Although Philonotis is common, the sporophyte is infrequent. The capsules mature in May or June. Family 17. Bryaceae. The Bryom Family. HE capsules of the Bryum Family are nearly always drooping and frequently have a well marked neck when dry. The peristome is double and well developed. (See glossary under "Peristome"), The leaves are usually plainly bordered by a thicker darker margin-of elongated cells, and the costa is stout and often excurrent. BRYUM. Bryum is perhaps the most difficult and troublesome of all the genera of mosses. The genus is large (500 species, 195 in Europe and America), and the distinctions between the species- are often few and difficult to observe. There are, however, several species that can be recognized 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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