This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...glossy leaves and a more slender costa are the essential characters separating this genus from Bryum. Subgenus I. POHLIA. Lower leaves small, distant, the upper much longer, tufted. Capsule long-necked, cernuous or horizontal. Inner membrane narrow, with the segments entire, and cilia none or very ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...glossy leaves and a more slender costa are the essential characters separating this genus from Bryum. Subgenus I. POHLIA. Lower leaves small, distant, the upper much longer, tufted. Capsule long-necked, cernuous or horizontal. Inner membrane narrow, with the segments entire, and cilia none or very short. # Flowers monoecious, the male gemmiform and terminal. 1. W. acuminata, Schimp. Lower leaves erect, the upper linear-lanceolate, irregularly dentate at the apex; borders reflexed toward the base; costa vanishing under the apex or excurrent: capsule narrowly elliptical, on a long pedicel curved in the upper part; lid long-conical, acute or subrostellate, reddish at the base; peristome large; segments long and narrow, entire; cilia none.--Coroll. 64, and Syn. 330. Pohlia acuminata, Hoppe & Hornsch., Regensb. Flora, ii. 1. 94. Hryum acuminatum, Bruch & Schimp. Bryol. Eur. t. 343. ab. Adirondack Mountains, near North Elba (Lesquereux); Wisconsin (Lapham); Colorado (liothrock, Wolf); Rocky Mountains (Drummond, Hall). Antheridia hypogynous, axillary. 2. W. polymorpha, Schimp. 1. Loosely cespitose: comal leaves open, lanceolate from an oblong base, sharply serrate toward the point; borders reflexed at base; costa vanishing below the apex: capsule oval-oblong, short-necked, horizontal or inclined, constricted under the orifice after the dchiscence of the conical obtuse or mamillate lid; pedicel straight or flexuous; inner peristome without cilia.--Pohlia polymorpha, Hoppe & Hornsch. 1. 100. Bryum polymorphum, Bruch & Schimp. Bryol. Eur. t. 344. Hab. Oregon (Hall); Mount Dana, California (Bolander); Sitka (Bisehoff). This species is subject to many varieties, like the last, from which it differs in its...
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