. 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. 76 MOSSES WITH A HAND-LENS Family iO, EncaLYPTACEAE. Extinguisher Mosses. E have but one genus of the Extinguisher Mosses, which as a whole are closely related to the Twisted Mosses in habit and leaf structure. The leaves are large and tongue-shaped and are crisped when dry as in Tortula, but the costa is little or not at all excurrent. When i n perfect fruit there is no possi- bility of mistaking the Extinguisher Mosses, as the large extinguisher
. 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. 76 MOSSES WITH A HAND-LENS Family iO, EncaLYPTACEAE. Extinguisher Mosses. E have but one genus of the Extinguisher Mosses, which as a whole are closely related to the Twisted Mosses in habit and leaf structure. The leaves are large and tongue-shaped and are crisped when dry as in Tortula, but the costa is little or not at all excurrent. When i n perfect fruit there is no possi- bility of mistaking the Extinguisher Mosses, as the large extinguisher- like calyptra ex- tends well below the capsule as shown in figure Figure 27. Bry. Eur.). I. ]arged. Bncalypta streptocarpa. (From Plant natural size. ib. Plant en- ENCALYPTA. E. S T R E P T 0- CAEPA Hedw., the Common Extin- guisher Moss, is very common on limestone, but rarely or never fruits in this country. The plants are very large, I to 2^/2 inches in height, and many of the large (about J4 inch in length) coarse leaves are strongly incurved at apex and sub-. 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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