. 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. 178 MOSSES WITH A HAND-LENS KANTIA. K. TRiCHOMANis (L.) S. F. Gray, the Common Kantia, is a very common hepatic forming a light green network or mat on moist peaty banks and rotten logs in the woods. It is medium sized, the leafy stems being ^V inch or more wide, often attenuate and ascending with minute leaves at base and ending in a cluster of gemmK. It may be recognized by the following characters: leaves in- cubous, not complicate-bilobed, ent
. 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. 178 MOSSES WITH A HAND-LENS KANTIA. K. TRiCHOMANis (L.) S. F. Gray, the Common Kantia, is a very common hepatic forming a light green network or mat on moist peaty banks and rotten logs in the woods. It is medium sized, the leafy stems being ^V inch or more wide, often attenuate and ascending with minute leaves at base and ending in a cluster of gemmK. It may be recognized by the following characters: leaves in- cubous, not complicate-bilobed, entire, roundish-ovate, lying flat in two op- posite rows in one plane, underleaves present but small, bifid at apex; in- volucre subcylindric, hairy, buried in the substratum and attached to the stem by one side of its mouth; cap- sule cylindric, the valves spirally twisted. The spores mature in May and June. , All the other species of a similar appearance have leaves lobed or toothed, or Figure io8. â chomanis. Kantia tri- nLBAVBS SUCCUBOUS TOOTHED OR LOBED. PLAGIOCHILA. P. ASPLENOIDES (L.) Dum., the Spleenwort Hepatic, is so called because its stem is so dark as to remind one of some of the darker spleenworts like the Ebony Spleenwort, for instance. The plants are among the largest of the scale mosses, the stems "being 1-4 inches long and -g- to rs of an inch wide with the leaves ascending, not closely attached to substratum, rather loose and straggling. Specimens have been found ten inches long. The leaves are succubous, somewhat irregular in shape, but obovate in general outline, not lobed or cleft, but some or all of the leaves strongly ciliate-dentate. They are very oblique on the stem, subclasping and somewhat decurrent. There are no under- leaves, and as the upper portion of the stem is free from rhizoids, this fact is easily made out. The spores mature in May and June,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have b
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