EXPLANATION OF PLATE II 

 Branching of Acrocarpous Mosses 



{Lines represent stems and branches) 



Fig. I. Stems forked. (The usual manner of branching; for exceptions 

 see Philonotis, p. 145, and Drummondia, p. 116.) 



Branching of Pleurocarpous Mosses 



Fig. 2. Stem pinnate. (Branches quite regularly arranged on opposite 



sides of stem.) 

 Fig. 3. Stem bipinnate. (Some if not all of the pinnate branches 



branched again.) 

 Fig. 4. Stem tripinnate. (Some if not all of the bipinnate branches 



branched again.) 

 Fig. 5. Stem tree-like in branching. (Branches only toward the tip of 



the stem, like the branches of a tree.) 

 Fig. 6. Stem irregularly branched. (Varying in many ways but not 



regularly pinnate, bipinnate, tripinnate, or tree-like.) 

 Fig. 7. Stem with branches arranged in clusters. 

 Fig. 8. Primary stem creeping, secondary stems erect oi- ascending, 



usually branched. 



