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The mosses of Iowa City and vicinity by Annette Slotterbec, 1888

The Mosses of Iowa City and Vicinity by Annette Slotterbec, 1888, Page 11

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9. Sphagnum cuspidatum Ehrh. To the genus Sphagnatiae belong the mosses usually found in bogs and peats, or floating in more or less compact tufts on the surface of stagnant water, or more rarely found along the borders of slow and sluggish streams. The plants are generally of large size, pale whitish or yellowish green, soft [illegible] perennial by the annual prolongation of the stems or by simple [illegible] [illegible]. Stems mostly undivided and having copious lateral branches. Leaves simple, nerveless and translucent composed to a single layer or cells. The cells are of two kinds. The ones large loose and colorless hyline
 
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