Hypnum, Hedw.

Maier, Eva & Price, Michelle J., 2014, Georg Bojung “ Scato ” Lantzius-Beninga and his contributions on the anatomy of moss capsules: a transliteration from the original German texts, Boissiera 67, pp. 1-79 : 41-42

HYPNUM .

The lower and the median part of the capsules of Hypnum and its closer relatives resemble the moss species described since Phascum so much that nothing special must be noted. The upper part of the capsule agrees with the inner structure, the [original page 585] peristome with the outer one of Aulacomnium , Bryum and so on, and differs more or less at the most in the structure of the annulus cells.

I examined the young capsules of Hypnum commutatum , cuspidatum , stramineum , syl- vaticum and so on, and I add as representative for the construction of this large group of mosses the figures of parts of a longitudinal and a transverse section of a capsule of Hypnum sylvaticum in Fig. 29 and 30 on Tab. LXIII.*).

Figures

Fig. 29. Part of a longtudinal section, and

Fig. 30. of a transverse section of the upper half of a capsule of Hypnum sylvaticum. Fig. 29 magnification x 250, Fig. 30 x 170.