. 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. MOSSES WITH A HAND-LENS and are very large, much curved, and are borne on long stout setae. The perichaetial leaves bear long cilia along their upper margins. This is one of the characters by which this species can be dis- tinguished readily from another closely related species, T. recog- nitum. T. RficoGNiTUM (Hedw.) Lindb. will not be distinguished from the Common Fern Moss ex- cept by close scrutiny. The peri- cheetial leaves are not ciliate an
. 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. MOSSES WITH A HAND-LENS and are very large, much curved, and are borne on long stout setae. The perichaetial leaves bear long cilia along their upper margins. This is one of the characters by which this species can be dis- tinguished readily from another closely related species, T. recog- nitum. T. RficoGNiTUM (Hedw.) Lindb. will not be distinguished from the Common Fern Moss ex- cept by close scrutiny. The peri- cheetial leaves are not ciliate and the stem leaves when moist are spreading-recurved instead of erect-spreading, as in the Com- mon Fern Moss. The shape of the stem leaves is also dif- ferent ; the figures explain these differences better than any de- scription. Both species grow on the ground, stones, or rotten wood, but this matures its spores in July, the other in early Figure 50. catulum X i c, Capsule of the same abietinum X 1. Thuidium deli- T. scitum X I. X 5- 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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