. 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. â as MOSSES WITH A HAND-LENS threads. This beautiful plant is probably the reality upon which are based the fairy tales of goblin gold. The discovery of this rare and curious plant will repay a search in every dark hole -one sees. If present it can always be seen from the outside, as it cannot grow beyond the reach of light. Mrs. Britton's Observer articles give a much fuller account of this moss. Family 13. SplachnACEAE, The Spkchnwm Family. SPLA
. 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. â as MOSSES WITH A HAND-LENS threads. This beautiful plant is probably the reality upon which are based the fairy tales of goblin gold. The discovery of this rare and curious plant will repay a search in every dark hole -one sees. If present it can always be seen from the outside, as it cannot grow beyond the reach of light. Mrs. Britton's Observer articles give a much fuller account of this moss. Family 13. SplachnACEAE, The Spkchnwm Family. SPLACHNUM. HERE are several species of Splachnum, but only one is likely to be found. S. AMPULLACEUM L., the odd looking moss repre- sented in Fig 34, is not very common and will not be found readily by most students. It is so striking in appearance that no one can fail to recognize it. The spores are borne in the slender upper portion; the swollen and colored (lilac or pur- plish) lower portion is the neck of the capsule, which is covered with stomata and filled with loose tissue suit- able for the assimilation of carbon dioxide. When dry this portion becomes irreg- ularly shrunken in a man- ner very difficult to repre- sent in a drawing. There are several other rare mosses of the Splach- num Family, all remark- able for the swollen neck (much less conspicuous than in Splachnum, how- FiGURE 34 Splachnum ampullaceum, \ j r leaf X lo; capsule, ripe and unripe X ever), and for growing i-^'^''^1,'''^"' ^'?i'^ capsules represented on animal excreta or de- are rather small, as they are often . found of twice this size). caying animal 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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