Contributions to the bryology and hepaticology of North America / by William S. Sullivant.

  • William Starling Sullivant
Date:
1846
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Credit: Contributions to the bryology and hepaticology of North America / by William S. Sullivant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    caulis sensim majora ; floralia 4-6, erecto-patentia, longissime acu- minata, acumine diaphano flexuoso subserrulato. Flores dioeci, in caule primario vel in innovationibus e summitate progredientibus terminales: uterque flos diphyllus; archegonia 8-12 stylo longis- simo instructa, stigmate magno dilatato; antheridia 10-14, elonga to-fusiformia, brevissime stipitata; paraphyses haud numerosse, te- nerrimse, genitalibus utriusque sexus immixtse, atque in foliorum superiorum gremio per paria nidulantes. Folia perichaetialia et pe- rigonialia floralibus similia, sed paulo majora. It grows in large patches, pendent from the perpendicular faces of sandstone rocks, in moist, shady places, six or eight miles south of Lancaster, Ohio. Tab. I. — Fig. 1. Plants of the natural size. Fig. 2. The same, mag- nified. Figs. 3,4. Apices of cauline leaves. Figs. 5,13,14. Transverse sections of the leaf. Fig. 6. Cauline leaf. Fig. 7. Perichsetial leaf. Fig. 8. Archegonia and paraphyses. Fig. 9. Perichaetial leaves inclosing arche- gonia. Fig. 10. Antheridia and paraphyses. Fig. 11. Perigonial leaves in- closing antheridia. Fig. 12. Part of the stem. Magnified. 2. FISSIDENS MINUTULUS, Sulliv. Muse. Alleghan. n. 183. Planta e perpusillis gentis, vitam annuam degens. Caules sim- plices, assurgentes, circiter sesquilineales, basi radiculosae, dense gre- gariae, sed nunquam inter se radiculis intertextae. Folia erecto- patentia, 4-8-juga; inferiora minuta, remota, subsquamiformia; su- periora in ascendendo magis magisque majora, oblique lineari-lanc.e- olata, acuta, fere ad medium usque conduplicata; lamina apiciali subrepanda plus minus limbata; limbo haud incrassato e cellulis elongato-fusiformibus diaphanis conflato; costa pellucida, in apice evanescente percursa, rotundato-hexagone areolata. Flores dioeci,
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