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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 33

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31. Limnicia megapolitans [Hedw?]. Plants rather large and loose, gregarious. Stems usually simple or dichotomously annual innervating. Leaves deeply serrate from above the clasping base narrowly lanceolate, recurved, concave [cirolate?], and fistulose, when dry. Lower [phricheatial?] leaves thin ovate-lanceolate; male flowers one or more at the base of the female, short-pedicillate. [Calyptranlang?] and very narrow, often left attached to the pedicle. Capsule, oval oblong horizontal, inclining, furrowed and erect when dry. Apex [culum?] orange. Segments appendiculate. Not rare.
 
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