Icones Muscorum; Or Figures and Descriptions of Most of Those Mosses Peculiar to Eastern North America

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. 1874 Excerpt: ...argute dentata; perich tialia cuspidata, interiora angusta, lanceolata. Flores synoici, terminales; antheridiis crassioribus et parapbysibus filiformibus. Capsula in pedicello elongato ultrapollicari inelinata vel subpendula, oblonga, macrostoma, papillosa, basi poris pluribus cellulis intensius coloratis circumductis quasi apophysata; operculo plano-conico brevi acuminato; annulo lato simplici. Mnium Venustum, Mitten in Hook. Jour. Bot. 8, p. 231. Hab. West coast of North America, Douglas. California, Bolander. In size, color, and general appearance, this species is like M. cuspidatum; but the leaves are more acuminate and more rigid, the capsule longer, with a band of colored stomata at its base, resembling an apophysis. TAH. 36.--Mnium Vknustum. 1. Planta naturali magnitudine. 7. Particula peristomii. 2. Planta. rt. Anthcridium, archegoniuin, et 3. 4. Folia. apophysis. 5. Areolatio folii. 9. Operculum. 6. Capsul . MNIUM INSIGNE, Mitten. Tab. 37. Plantee data;, robusta;, species, luteo-virides. Caulis simplex, fertilis erectus, remote foliosus. Folia oblonga, nervo excurrente cuspidata, margine colorate serrata, basi gradatim augustata longe lateque decurrentia; perich tialia exteriora longiora, interiora brevia, subulata, augusta. Flores dioici, terminales; masculi anthoidei. Capsula longe pedunculata, solitaria, vel 3-4 aggregat, ovata vel cylindrica; operculo conico-obtusiusculo. Mnium Insigne, Mitten in Ilook. Jour. Bot. 8, p. 230. Hab. North America, 3Ienzies, Drummond, Douglas, ete. The author remarks that this fine species differs from M. affine, Bland, in its longer and narrower leaves, which are widely decurrent at their base, the leaves in M. affine being narrowed to a base not wider than the stem, and not at all...