Cord Mosses 



grounds, or even on the crumbling mortar of old 

 stone houses and neglected walls. 



Name. The specific name hygrometrica is a com- 

 pound of two Greek words, vypos, water, and 

 os, measuring, and refers to the .habit the 



Spores. 



(b) Branching protonema with a moss plant starting at (k) ; 

 (w) rhizoid ; (h) a primary filament of protonema. 



Funaria hygrometrica. 



Germinating spores. 



(v) Vacuole; (w) rhizoid 



(s) spore wall. 



F. hygrometrica. 



Sport- case, 

 ....arnmlas 



F. hygrometrica. 



F. hygrometrica. Fe- 

 male flower in vertical F. hygrometrica. 

 section, (a) archegon- Plant with imma- 

 ium; (b) leaf. ture spore -case still 



in its veil. 

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