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The microscope and its revelations (1891)

Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885, Dallinger, W. H. (William Henry), 1842-1909 · Philadelphia, Blakiston · leaf 645

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ids, or male organs, of Sphagnaceceresemble those of liverworts, rather than those of mosses, in theirform and arrangement; they are grouped in catkins at the tipsof lateral branches, each of the imbricated perigonal leaves enclosinga single globose antherid on a slender footstalk, and they are… … BOG-MOSSES 599 leaves at the end cf one of the short lateral branchlets at the side ofthe rosette or terminal crown of leaves. The two sets of organsare always distributed on different branches, and in some instanceson different plants. The sporange which is formed as the productof the impregnation…

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