. 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 177 ground in cool moist ravines, swamps, and woods, bnt reaches its perfect development in tlie deep mountain woods of New England and similar regions elsewhere. Here it forms deep soft dark- green carpets over earth, stones and debris. The erect ascending stems are 2-5 inches long and ^ inch or more wide with the leaves. The under sides of the stems bear numerous slender flagella with tiny leaves; these the uninitiated ar
. 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 177 ground in cool moist ravines, swamps, and woods, bnt reaches its perfect development in tlie deep mountain woods of New England and similar regions elsewhere. Here it forms deep soft dark- green carpets over earth, stones and debris. The erect ascending stems are 2-5 inches long and ^ inch or more wide with the leaves. The under sides of the stems bear numerous slender flagella with tiny leaves; these the uninitiated are apt to consider as roots. As its name indicates, the oblong-ovate truncate leaves are three-toothed at the apex, but these teeth are not large enough properly to be called lobes. The leaves are plainly incubous as shown in the figures, and somewhat deflexed, i. e., bent toward the ground. The underleaves are easily seen. The spores mature in August and September. The Three-lobed Bazzania is quite variable in size and in unfavorable localities is so small that the beginner may call it the next unless he has seen both and remembers that B. triangularis is subalpine. B. TRIANGULARIS (Schleich.) Lindb. (B. dcflcxa Underw.) is a subalpine species growing on rocks. The leafy stems are dbout yV inch wide; the downward growing flagella are present and most of the leaves are 2 to 3 toothed, although some may be entire. The plants vary a'great deal in color from dark to light green. I have seen specimens as dark as the FruUanias. vg/2. 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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