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MUSCI 



Although the study of mosses has been much neglected in South 

 Africa the number ol known species is already considerable. Our list 

 shows 32 families with 10; genera, none of them, however, endemic 

 here. The number of species, as far as known, amounts to 135, but 

 there is no doubt that a good many more will be found, especially in 

 the forests and on the mountains. 





Fig. 42 a. Stereodon cupressiformis (L.) Brid. 

 1. Plant. 2. Twig, enlarged. 3. Leaf, 10/1. 

 4. Basis of leaf, 150/ 1. (From nature) 



42 A. Campylopm atrohiteus 



C. Mueller A \ i\ i parous moss 

 from the summit of Table 

 Mountain, propagating itself 

 principally or perhaps exclu- 

 sively by leafy buds* (bul- 

 billae). Nat. size. 



Until some day a Bryologia Capensis appears the student who 

 wishes to learn more about our mosses will have to resort to 

 K. Mueller's Synopsis Muscorum and his account of the collection 

 of 200 species of mosses made by A. REHMANN (Literature, page 246). 



Fig. 43. Po/ytrichum commune L. Very young peristome. 

 (After Lantzius-Beninga) 



From R. MARLOTH, Das Kaplaml. (Jena, 1908.) 



