OTHER COMMON MOSSES 



The wavy Dicranum is the largest and most beautiful 

 of all this family. It grows on the ground and on 

 rocks. Its leaves are very wavy, and have a beautiful 

 silky gloss. Like the broom moss they look as if the 

 wind had blown them all in one direction. The curved 

 capsules grow in clusters instead of singly, as the broom 

 mosses do. 



Dicranums. 

 1, Broom Moss; 2, Wavy Dicranum; 3, Drummond's Dicranum. 



Everybody has seen the white moss. It grows in 

 tufts looking like great pincushions. It is of a light 

 grayish-green or whitish color. There are few capsules, 

 but these are not needed to tell us the kind. The color 

 and manner of growth show this. It looks much like 

 the peat mosses, and the cushions take up and hold 

 water in the same spongelike way. 



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