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GLOSSARY. 



Acicular, shaped like a bodkin. 



Acrocarpous, bearing fruit at the tip 

 of the stem or branches. 



Annulus, a little ring, which is often 

 elastic, at the rim of the mouth of 

 the sporangium. 



Antheridia, oblong or globular cel- 

 lular bodies, containing the sper- 

 matozoids. 



Apophysis, a swelling of greater or 

 less size at the base of the spo- 

 rangium or tip of the fruitstalk, 

 sometimes belonging more or less 

 to both. 



Apophysate, fumished with an apo- 

 physis. 



Appendiculate, fringed with little 

 fragmentary bodies. 



Archegonium, the young flask-shaped 

 female fruit, in the cavity of which 

 the embryonic cell is generated. 



Areolate, divided into little areae, a 

 term applied to the cellular tissue 

 of the leaves. 



Bifarious, two-ranked, a term ap- 

 plied to the leaves. 



Bigeminate, a term applied to the 

 teeth of the peristome when com- 

 bined in two pairs. 



Catyptra, the membranous cap of 



the sporangium, derived from the 



wall of the areheponium, which 



splits below and is earned up by 



the swollen sporangium as the 



fruitstalk elongates. 

 Cancellated, like lattice- work. 

 Cgjpsule, a name usually applied to 



the sporangium, but rejected here 



because it is manifestly incorrect. 

 Cernuous, drooping : spoken of the 



sporangium. 

 Chlorophyllous, spoken of the leaf- 



cells when they manifestly contain 



a green grumous mass, or little 



pellets of chlorophyll. 

 Cilia, processes which sometimes 



alternate with the teeth of the in- 



ner peristome. 

 Cladocarpous, used when the spo- 



rangia iuv produced on extremely 



short branchlets. 

 C<j!ti,iidla, the little central column 



which occurs in the centre of most 



Commissure, the point of junction of 

 two cells, or of the lid and mouth 

 of the sporangium. 



Cotyledonoidsj a term applied to 

 the germinating threads of mosses, 

 from a notion that they are analo- 



