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MOSSES WITH A HAND-LENS 



Gemmae, bud-like bodies, cap- 

 able of reproducing the plant. 

 Sometimes borne in special heads, 

 sometimes on the surface of the 

 leaves. (Fig. 16.) 



Gemmiferous or gcmmiparous, 

 bearing gemmae. 



Gibbous (capsule), more 

 tumid or swollen on one side than 

 on the other. (Fig. 17.) 



Glaucous, originally applied 

 to plants covered with a bluish 

 white bloom, but also applied to 

 mosses that have that color. 



Gregarious, growing near to- 

 gether or clustered, but not in 

 close tufts or mats. 



Gymnostomous, without a peris.ome. 

 Habitat, the place in which a plant 

 grows; often used in a general way to 

 designate the kind of place usually oc- 

 cupied by a plant. 



Hamate or hamulosc, curved like a hook; more 

 sharply and abruptly curved than in falcate and 

 circlnatc.. 



Hetcromallous (leaves or branches), turned in different 

 directions. 



Homomallous, turned in the same direction. 

 Hygroscopic, readily absorbing water and there- 

 by altered in form or direction. Hygrometric is 

 sometimes used with a similar meaning. 



Hypophysis, a swelling of the seta immediately 

 under the capsule. (Fig. 10.) 



Imbricated, closely overlapping each other like 

 the tiles of a roof. (Fig. 18.) 



Immersed, covered up; of the capsule when the 

 perichsetial leaves project beyond it. 



Incubous, of the leaves of Hepatics, having 

 the upper margin overlapping the lower margin 

 of the leaf next above. (See Porella and Radula.) 



