. The essentials of botany. Botany. 192 BOIANT in the transportation of living plants. They all belong to the genus Sphagnum. (2) Order Andrseacese, composed of a few small and rare mosses. (3) Order Phascaceae, small mosses with hut little development of a leafy stem, and a persistent protonema. 402. (4) The True Mosses (Order Bryacese) include the great majority of the mosses of the country. They are usually bright-green (in a few genera brownish), and in. ^^^â Vyi.^A, three spores of a Moss germinating; B, protonema of a Uoss; K, bud from wliich a leafy stem will develop. Highly magnified.
. The essentials of botany. Botany. 192 BOIANT in the transportation of living plants. They all belong to the genus Sphagnum. (2) Order Andrseacese, composed of a few small and rare mosses. (3) Order Phascaceae, small mosses with hut little development of a leafy stem, and a persistent protonema. 402. (4) The True Mosses (Order Bryacese) include the great majority of the mosses of the country. They are usually bright-green (in a few genera brownish), and in. ^^^â Vyi.^A, three spores of a Moss germinating; B, protonema of a Uoss; K, bud from wliich a leafy stem will develop. Highly magnified. most instances live upon moist ground and rocks, or upon the bark of trees; in a comparatively small number of cases the species live in the water. They are undoubtedly the highest of the class, and show a greater differentiation of tissues than any of the preceding orders. Among the more common mosses are species of Dicranum, Fissi- dens, Polytrichum, including the well-known Hair-cap Moss (P. commune), Timmia, Bryum (Fig. 106, G and H), Mnium, Funaria (F. hygrometrica. Figs. 105, 106, Ato F,. 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 Bessey, Charles E. (Charles Edwin), 1845-1915. New York : H. Holt and company, ;
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