. Mosses with hand-lens and microscope : a non-technical hand-book of the more common mosses of the northeastern United States. ,/»?> I p f. : ill •. PLATE XXXI. Torlella frairilis (From Bry. Eur.) TORTULACEAE 157 belo-iv, piili-r above; capsule cylindric, ™! long; teeth from a narrow basalmembrane, long, and several times twisted; spores maturing in late on rocks, especially limestone, perhaps the most common species ofthe family except IVeisia viridiihi, but fruiting rather infrequently. Thisspecies is of almost world-wide distribution. The large size of the
. Mosses with hand-lens and microscope : a non-technical hand-book of the more common mosses of the northeastern United States. ,/»?> I p f. : ill •. PLATE XXXI. Torlella frairilis (From Bry. Eur.) TORTULACEAE 157 belo-iv, piili-r above; capsule cylindric, ™! long; teeth from a narrow basalmembrane, long, and several times twisted; spores maturing in late on rocks, especially limestone, perhaps the most common species ofthe family except IVeisia viridiihi, but fruiting rather infrequently. Thisspecies is of almost world-wide distribution. The large size of the plants and the /oiii^-Iiiieur or lance-linear slenderly acumi-nate leaves, much crisped when dry, make the species easy of recognition. T. fragilis (Drumm.) Limpr. Plants shorter and more slender than in thelast; leaves somewhat curled when dry but rarely crisped to any great extent, whenmoist becoming rather rigidly straight and siiberect, glossy and shining at back w/iendr\\ not undulate, rather quickly tapering from an ovate lanceolate base into avery long slender apex, composed of the stout excurreut costa; apex
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