Mosses and Lichens 



Name. J. G. Hedwig showed his appreciation of its beauty 

 when he called it splendens. 



Plant (gametophyte) . In loose tufts, rigid, pale olive-green; 

 stems glitterjng, 4 to 8 inches high, increasing by annual arched 



branches, or by rigid, upright branches; 

 branches once or twice feather-branched. 



Leaves. Stem-leaves, at the base, distant, 

 small and scale-like; above, loosely overlap- 

 ping, slightly concave, broadly oval-long, often 

 narrowed into a long wavy point; vein (costa) 



Stem-leaf. 



Apex. 



Perigonial leaf 

 with paraphysis 

 and antheridium. 



H. splendens. 



Branch-leaves. 



faintly double; margin finely toothed; branch-leaves smaller, 

 oval-oblong, shorter pointed. 



Leaves at the base of the pedicel (pericbcetial leaves). Narrowly 

 pointed, sub-erect or recurved at the apex. 



Leaf -like organs (paraphyllia). Numerous, large, varied in 

 form. 



Habit of flowering. Male and female flowers on different 

 plants, (dioicous). 



Veil (calyptra). Thin, transparent, pointed, split on one side, 

 large and persistent. 



Spore-case. Egg-shaped, horizontal by a curve of the pedicel 

 under the base. 



Pedicel (seta). Curved under the spore-case, about one inch 

 high, smooth. 



Lid (operciihim) . Large and beaked. 



Teeth (peristome). Double, as in the genus Hrpmtm. 



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