The Principles of Botany, As Exemplified in the Cryptogamia. for the Use of Schools And Colleges
The book The Principles of Botany, As Exemplified in the Cryptogamia. for the Use of Schools And Colleges was written by author Coultas, Harland, D. 1877 Here you can read free online of The Principles of Botany, As Exemplified in the Cryptogamia. for the Use of Schools And Colleges book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Principles of Botany, As Exemplified in the Cryptogamia. for the Use of Schools And Colleges a good or bad book?
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86. The mosses are plants having a distinct stem or axis of growth, around which their minute leaves are arranged with the greatest regularity and beauty. These leaves, and, in fact, the whole plant, assume a regular specific form, being, as to their margin, entire, serrate, or denticulate, with con- densed cells in their centre, which form a sort of midrib or nerve. Occasionally, however, the leaves are nerveless, as in Hypnum purum, a British species. 87- Sometimes the stem is procumbent, or ...creeps along the ground ; the branches fork and spread, emitting rootlets from every part of their under surface, which doubtless perform their part in absorption ; and the capsules or fruit come out laterally, or from the side of the branches. In other species, the stem takes an ascending direction, the rootlets are con- CELLULAEES, OR CELLULAR PLANTS. G9 fined to the lower extremities of the axis of growth, and the fructification is terminal, or comes out at the summit of the branches. Such mosses are evidently the higher represent- atives of the family.
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