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HANDBOOK OF MOSSES. 



Comprising Ptychomitrium, Orthotrichum (fig. 34), En- 

 calypta (fig. n), etc. 



Tribes VI., VII., VIII. comprising Tetraphid(z,Discdiecz, 

 and Schistostegece are unimportant, and may be passed 

 over. 



Tribe IX. Splachnece. Plants and leaves of soft, loose 

 texture ; male flowers discoid ; capsule with an apophysis 

 varying in shape and size. 



Embraces the genera Dissodon, Tetraplodon^ and Splach- 

 num (fig. 10). 



FIG. 34. Orthotrichum straiuitieum. i, plant enlarged to show ribbed capsule. 

 2, hairy mitriforme calyptra. 3, conico-rostrate lid. 4, leaf enlarged ; 4 a, upper 

 leaf cells which are papillose ; 4 b, elongated cells from base of leaf. 



Tribe X. Physcomitriea. Plants soft ; leaves large ; cells 

 large and transparent ; capsule rarely symmetrical, generally 

 curved to one side and swollen ; peristome absent or of 

 sixteen teeth, inclined to the right, with an inner membrane 

 divided into irregular segments, or rudimentary. 



A group comprising Physcomitrium, Entosthodon, Funaria 

 (fig. 25), etc. 



Tribe XI. Bartramiea. Leaves papillose on both upper 

 and lower surface ; cells minute, quadrate in the upper part 



