THE 



AMATEUR'S CLASSIFICATION OF MOSSES. 



I. Stem straight oe spakingly foeeed, with Leaves aeound it. 

 Feuit at the Summit. Plants Eooted. 



Genera. 

 ArcMdium. Phasmm. 

 Seligeria. Discelium. Anodus. 



Buxbaumia. 



Star Moss 



A. MicEoscopic Mosses. 



a. Capsule a round green dot. 



b. Capsule, an urn on a fruitstalk. 



B. Mosses distestguishablb by the Naked Eye. 

 a. Capsule erect or oblique. 



I. Leaves small or narrow. 



a. Stems none. Fruitstalk half buiied. 



^. Stems very short. In patches upon earth and rocks. 



1. Capsule hidden among the leaves. 

 Small and round. 

 Large, and like a grain of wheat. 



2. Capsule an urn on a stalk, — 

 Oymnostomum. Pottia. Physcomitrium. Weissia. Anacalypta. 



Brachyodiis. Trichostomwm. Entosihodon. Brachyodiis. 

 ielium. Desmatodon. 

 y. Stems slender, half-inch to two inches long. In tufts on earth and 

 rocks. 



Capsule on short fruitstalk. Siylostegium. OlypTiomitrion, 



Capsule on long fruitstalk, leaves small. On earth or rocks. 



Gymnostomum. Dissodon. TrieJwstomum. Weissia. Didymodon. Tayloria 



Leaves long and sOky. In bogs. Paludella. Amblyodon 



Weissia. Rhabdoweissia. Cynodontium. Blindia. Arctoa. Dicranum 



Ceraiodon. Distichium. 



ScMstidium. 

 Dipliyscium. 



Didymodon. 

 Campylos- 



