Index 



Mosses, Racomitrium, 



lanuginosum, leaves, 181 (cut) 

 peristome, 180, 182 (cut) 

 spore-cases, 181 (cut) 

 veil, 1 80 (cut) 



vertical section of peristome 

 i So, 182 (cuts) 



Scliistostcga, genus, 199-202 

 osmimdacea, 201 



barren plant, 201 (cut) 

 fertile plant, 201 (cut) 

 protonema in natural position, 

 201 (cut) 



cells light, perpendicular, 

 200 (cut) 



oblique, 200 (cut) 

 veil, 200 (cut) 

 vertical section of protonema, 



200 (cut) 



Sphacrangium, genus, 133-135 

 muticum, 134 



branches, male and female, 135 



(cut) 



leaves, 135 (cut) 



Schimpcranum, leaf cells, 134 (cut) 

 spore-case emitting spores, 134 



(cut) 



Sphagnum, genus, colour plate XI., 113- 

 130 (cuts) 



absorbing quality of, in, 116 

 acuta, 122 

 actttifolittm, 124 



anthendia, 118 (cut) 

 antheridium bursting, nS (cut) 

 development, 119, 120 

 mature, 119 



antherozoid, 118 (cut), 120 

 archegonia mature when, 119 

 branch leaves, 123 

 development of spore-case, 121 



(cut) 

 female branch, 125 (cut), 126 



(cut) 



.gametophyte, 126 

 male flower-cluster, 118 (cut) 



120 (cut), 125 (cut) 

 moss plant on protonema, 120 



(cut) 



perichsetial leaf, 125 (cut) 

 perigonial branch, 125 (cut) 



leaf, 125 (cut) 

 protonema, 119 (cut) 

 section of leaf, 124 (cut) 



stem, 1 24 (cut) 

 stem leaves, 123 



of moss plant, 118 (cut) 



120, 121, 125 

 vertical section to show arche- 



gpnium, 119 (cut) 

 antiseptic quality of, no 

 cell, structure of, 113, 114, 115, 



117, (cuts) 



chang_e of colour, 109 

 climbing habit of, in, 112 

 cuspidata, 123, 126 



branch leaves, 127 



stem leaves, 127 



vertical section of ripe arche- 



gonium, 120 (cut) 

 young embryo, 120 (cut) 

 cyclophylla, 124 



branch, 124 (cut) 

 leaf, 124 (cut) 



cyntbifolium, 123, plate III., 124, 128 

 antheridium, 130 

 apex of leaf, 115 (cut), 127 

 bit of stem, 113 (cut), 129 

 bract, 115 (cut), 129 

 branch leaves, 130 



Mosses, Sphagnum, 



cymbijolium, cross section of leaf, 

 us (cut) 



stem, 113 (cut), 129 

 female branch, 115 (cut), 129 

 leaf from branch, 115 (cut) 

 from base of pedicel, 115 



(cut) 



magnified, 114 (cut) 

 male branch, 115 (cut) 

 perichaetial leaf, 129 

 protonema of, 118 (cut) 

 stem leaf, 115 (cut), 130 

 surface view of leaf cells, 114 



(cut) 



zones of cells in stem.ns (cut) 

 foot of, 121 



formation of peat by, 109, no 

 quaking bog by, no (cut) 

 raft by, no 



germination of spore in water, 109 

 growth from apex, 109 



outward from shore, iio(cut) 

 lid of, 121 



loss of root-like growth, 109 

 marsh building by, in 

 at Albany, 112 

 in Averyville swamp, 112 

 in Connery Park, 112 

 in Hidden Swamp, 112 

 in King River, Cal., 1 1 1 

 at Mt. Marcy, 111 

 at Mt. Pocono, in 

 at Mud Pond, 112 

 near Palisades of Hudson, in 

 in Shawangunk Mts., in 

 mendocinum, 1 1 1 

 methods by which they encroach 



upon water, 109 

 mollc, 124 



branch leaves, 124 (cut) 

 stem leaves, 124 (cut) 

 mollia, 123 



pale tint of, due, 116 

 papillosum, vertical section of 

 developing archegonium, 120 

 (cut) 



pedicel of, 121 



problem solved by geologists, 109 

 protonema of, 109 

 pseudopodium, 121 

 rubdhim, 122, 125 



apex of leaf, 126 (cut) 

 branch leaf, 126 (cut) 

 female branch, 126 (cut) 

 leaves of divergent branch, 



126 (cut) 



male branch, 127 (cut) 

 perigonial leaf, 127 (cut) 

 section of leaf, 115 (cut) 



stem, 127 (cut) 

 stem, 113 (cut), 126 (cut) 

 squarrosa, 123 

 squarrosum, plate XII., 128 

 branch leaf, 123 (cut) 

 female branch, 128 (cut) 

 leaf at base of pedicel, 128 (cut) 

 leaves of branch, 127 (cut) 

 sporophyte, 116 (cut) 

 stem leaves, 128 (cut) 

 transverse section of leaf, 127 



(cut) 

 subsecundum, 124 



leaves, 123 (cut) 

 young archegonium, 120 (cut) 

 synopsis of, 123 

 use to economist, 109 

 veil of, 121 



vertical section of young sporo- 

 gonium, 122 



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