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J, 151, or veil, its summit being the stigma. This 

 veil clothes the capsule, which, before the seed 

 ripens, is elevated on a fruit-stalk. The capsule is 

 of one cell and one valve, opening by a vertical lid, 



y!213*. Seeds very numerous and minute. The 

 barren flowers of mosses consist of an indefinite 

 number of nearly cylindrical, almost sessile, anthers, 



f, 19O; the fertile flowers, of one (rarely more) 

 perfect pistil, accompanied by several barren pistils, 



f. 192. Both stamens and pistils are intermixed 

 with numerous succulent jointed threads, y. 19 1> 

 which perhaps answer the purpose of a calyx or 

 corolla, as far as protection is concerned. Some 

 few species of moss have the stamens and pistils 

 associated in the same flower, but they are generally 

 separate. Hifpnwn, E?^gL Bat. t. 1424, 1425, has 

 a scaly sheath, ov pcricJicetium^f. 150, at the base 

 of its fruit-stalk, composed of leaves very difl:erent 

 from the foliage of th-3 plant. This is considered as 

 a sort of calyx, see/;. 192, and as such is allowed 

 to enter into the generic character ; but there is 

 some reason to esteem it rather of the nature of 

 bracteas. The capsule of Splachnum^ Engl. Bot, 

 t. 144, &c., stands on a peculiar fleshy base, called 

 apophysis, J'. 1 89 a. 



]\iicheli in his Genera Plantarum, published in 

 1 729j tab. 59j has well represented the parts above 



* This part in F/tascion only does not separate from the capsule. 



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