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SBA MOSSES, 



Cryptogam. 

 Cylindrical 



Filiform. 

 Flora. 



Frond. 



Gelatinous. 

 Habitat. 



I 



I 



Hold-fast. ^ 



I 



Ianceolate 



or 

 Lance-shaped. 



Lateral. 



Lobe. 



Membraneous. 



A flowerless plant, 

 r Formed like stems generally, round, 

 i and tapering if at all, very slightly. 

 { Thread-shaped, long, slender and 

 ( cylindrical. 



f The plants of a district, or country, 

 ( taken together. 

 The whole body of the Alga, main 

 stem, branches and ramuli, all taken 

 together. 

 Jelly-like. 



The place of growth of a plant. 

 The part of an Alga, which answers 

 to the root of other plants, that by 

 which it is attached to whatever it 

 grows upon; it may be a mass ol 

 root-fibres, or a thin, disk-like expan- 

 sion of the substance of the frond. 



/ Leaflets several times longer than wide, 

 \ tapering upwards, or both upwards 

 '^ and downwards. 



From the side. 



A segment of a membraneous frond. 



Thin, more or less translucent, like 

 a membrane. 



