172 MUSCINE^ 



Literature. 



Mirbel — Mem. Acad. Sc, xii., 1835. 



Strasburger — Pringsheim's Jahrb. wiss. Bot., 1870, p. 409. 



Vogt — Bot. Zeit., 1879, pp. 729 and 745. 



Goebel— Arb. Bot. Inst. Wiirzburg, 1880, p. 529. 



Leitgeb— Sitzber. Akad. Wiss. \Yien, 1880, pp. 40 and 123 ; and Die Marchantieen, 



1881. 

 Prescher — (Mucilage-receptacles) Sitzber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 1882. 

 Mattirolo — (Hygroscopic Properties) Malpighia, ii. 1888, p. 181. 



FOSSIL MUSCINE^. 



No remains have been found earlier than the Tertiary formations 

 which appear to belong to Muscineae. Here and in the Quaternary 

 beds remains or impressions occur which have been referred to various 

 families of Musci and Hepaticse, including leaves of a single species of 

 Sphagnum and a single moss-capsule. The leaves of Jungermanniaceae 

 are not uncommonly found enclosed in amber. 



