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every few inches, which push out into leaves and stems to form t 
gray-green moss. SCHIMPER (1) succeeded in finding one seedlin 
but he gives no description of it. Merz (6) states he was unab 
obtain any seedling at all. Realizing that the observations of Mx 
were worth consideration, I searched crotches of moss-laden tre 
which plenty of vegetable mold had collected, but without suce s. 
Fic. 1.—Seedlings of Tillandsia usneoides; on the right is a cluster of 
still attached by their coma to a partially opened — near the top of 
on the left a seedling is adhering to the scaly surfac 
I then planted seeds in the mold, but they could not be it 
germinate. On April 6, 1903, I observed Tillandsia 
the first time, and they were projecting from a partial 
capsule (fig. r). Out of the nineteen seeds in the capsule, | 
had developed into seedlings. They were held in place by 
of hairs from the testa to which they still adhered. An exam 
of moss festoons was then made, with the result that 
