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Nature, Gardens & Animals
A Synopsis of the British Mosses
Charles Codrington Pressick Hobkirk
158 pages~3 hr 8 min read177 chapters$4.99
Mosses are a whole hidden flora underfoot, and Charles Hobkirk gives Britain's the key it needed. Genus by genus, from Andreaea on the rocks to Sphagnum in the bog, he lays out the analysis to name them. A pocket guide for the patient bryologist. Stoop low and learn the green carpet of the British woods.
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177 chapters
- 1A Synopsis OF The British Mosses, CONTAINING DESCRIPTIONS OF ALL THE GENERA AND SPECIES, (WITH LOCALITIES OF THE RARER ONES) FOUND IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, BASED UPON WILSON’S “BRYOLOGIA BRITANNICA,” SCHIMPER’S “SYNOPSIS,” ETC.
- 2PREFACE.
- 3LIST OF CONTRACTIONS USED IN THIS VOLUME.
- 4NOTICE TO COLLECTORS.
- 5ANALYSIS OF GENERA.
- 6DIVISION I. ACROCARPI. (Genera 1–72.)
- 71. ANDREÆA. Ehr.
- 8a. L. nerveless.
- 9b. L. nerved.
- 102. SPHAGNUM. Dill.
- 11Sect. I. Leaves obtuse roundish or elliptical.
- 12Sect. II. Leaves acuminate, ovate, or ovate-lanceolate.
- 133. ARCHIDIUM. Bridel.
- 144. PHASCUM. Linn.
- 15Sect. I. (Ephemerum.) Almost stemless, capsule immersed, barren fl. gemmiform at base of, or near to, fertile fl.
- 16Sect. II. Barren fl. axillary, antheridia naked.
- 17Sect. III. Barren fl. axillary, gemmiform.
- 18Sect. IV. Barren fl. naked in the axil of a perichætial leaf.
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