"... opening several of these dry red Cases, I found them to be quite 

 hollow, without any thing at all in them; whereas when I cut them 

 asunder with a sharp Pen-knife when green, I found in the middle of 

 this great Case, another smaller round Case, between wiiich two, the 

 interstices were fill'd with multitudes of stringie fibres, which seem'd to 

 suspend the lesser Case in the middle of the other, which (as farr as I 

 was able to discern) seem'd full of exceeding small white seeds . . ." 



From a description of moss capsules in R. Hooke's Micrographia 1667 

 (pp. 131, 132). 



