287 FOUNDATIONS OF BOTANY 
In some specimens the stem may be found, at a height of an inch 
or more above the roots, to bear a conical, basket-shaped enlargement, 
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Fic. 206.— A Moss, Catharinea. 
The sporophytes of this moss are usually rather more slender than as 
here represented, 
