THE 



AMATEUR'S CLASSIFICATION OF MOSSES. 



I. Stem straight oe sparingly forked, with Leaves around it. 

 Fruit at the Summit. Plants Eooted. 



Star Moss 



A. Microscopic Mosses. Genera. 



a. Capsule a round green dot. Archidium. Phascum. 



b. Capsule, an urn on a fruitstalk. Seligeria. Discelium. Anodus. 



B. Mosses distinguishable by the Naked Eye. 

 a. Capsule erect or oblique. 



i. Leaves small or narrow. 



a. Stems none. Fruitstalk balf buried. Buxbaumia. 

 (3. Stems very short. In patches upon earth and rocks. 



1. Capsule hidden among the leaves. 



Small and round. Schistidivm. 

 Large, and like a grain of wheat, Dvphysciv/m. 



2. Capsule an urn on a stalk, — 



Gymnostomum. Pottia. Physcomitrium. Wcissia. Anacahypta. Didymodon. 

 Bracliyodus. Trichostomum. Entosthodon, Bracliyodus. Gampylos- 

 teliam. Desmatodon. 

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

 rocks. 



Capsule on short fruitstalk. Stylostegium. Glyphomitrion. 



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

 Gymnostomum. Dissodon. Trichostomum. Wcissia. Didymodon. Tayhria. 



Leaves long and silky. In bogs. Paludeilu. AmNyodon. 



Wcissia. BJtabdoiveissia. Cynodontium. Blindia. Arctoa. Dicranum. 



Ceratodon. D is t icli ium , 



