The Musci & Hepaticae of the Northern United States, (from New England to Pennsylvania and Wisconsin); Contributed to Gray's Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ...subulate from a narrow lanceolate basc by the long-excurrent costa, secund-falcate, denticulate at the apex; those of the perichseth convolute, overtopping the oval capsule which emerges laterally; calyptra dimidiate, extending below the capsule, and spirally convolute; cilia of the inner peristome connected at their apices only.--Rivulets, Pennsylvania and northward. (Tab. IV.) (Eu.) 3. I. pallescens, Bryol. Europ. Much like No. 2, but smaller; leaves pale green, shorter, wider, more complicate-carinate, and more falcate, with a larger areolation; cilia of the inner peristome not connected by cross-bars.--(D. capillacea, Drum. Muse. Amer., No. 234.)--British America, Drummond. i. D. subulatum, Myrin. Stems elongated, subpinnate; branches short, widely spreading; leaves erect-patent, lanceolate, complicate-carinate, the costa ceasing at the denticulate apex; capsule ovate-oval, short-pedicelled, concealed by the broad and straight perichsetial leaves; calyptra cuculliform, not descending below the convex-rostellate operculum; cilia of the inner peristome free, except at their apices.--Louisiana, Drummond. Tribe XXV. CRYPHiEEiE. 61. CBYPHiEA, Mohr. (Tab. V.) Calyptra conic-mitriform, papillose at the apex, small. Operculum conic. Capsule immersed, ovate-oblong, short-pedicellate, annulate. Peristome double; the exterior 16 lanceolate-subulate teeth remotely articulated, granulated; the interior 16 subulate cilia, the basilar membrano nearly obsolete. Inflorescence monoecious: anthcridia oval, with long pedicels and short paraphyses.--Rather slender Mosses, growing on trees, with leafless creeping stems and ascending or pendulous and subsimple densely leafy branches, bearing in lines or clusters numerous perichsetia enveloping the capsule. (Name from Kpvpaios...