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ICONES MUSCORUM.
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The European Bruchia Vogecsiaca, which this speeies resembles, is a larger moss, with a more elongated capsule gradually tapering below into the pedicel, and above into a long and slender beak. Its spores are much smaller, being only 1/1000 of an inch in diameter.


TAB. 13.—Bruchia flexuosa.

1. Plantæ naturali magnitudine.
2, 3, 4. Plantæ.
5, 6. Folia.
7. Areolatio folii apicis.
8. Eadem folii baseos.
9. Sectio transversalis folii.
10. Capsula, pedicellus, et vaginula cum parapbysibus.
11. Calyptra.
12. Antheridia cum folio perigoniali.