Georg Bojung “ Scato ” Lantzius-Beninga and his contributions on the anatomy of moss capsules: a transliteration from the original German texts
Author
Maier, Eva
chemin des Cottenets 8, 1233 Bernex-Sézenove, Switzerland
Author
Price, Michelle J.
Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève, case postale 60, 1292 Chambésy, Switzerland
michelle.price@ville-ge.ch
text
Boissiera
2014
2014-12-31
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journal article
978-2-8277-0083-7
10.5281/zenodo.5729519
Dicranum scoparium
(Tab. LVIII.
Fig. 10-13
. Tab. LIX. 14).
At about the same place as the annulus is visible, instead of sixteen, thirty-two large peristome cells, two of them together are built as one big cell seen in the mosses examined until now; see
Fig. 11
.
pp;
a little bit nearer to the apex of the capsule where the peristome disappears totally only
sixteen
of them may be seen; compare
Fig. 12 and 13
.
The base of the peristome itself is formed from a coarse tissue composed by considerably thickened cells constituting a strong connection with the outer capsule membrane; see the transverse section
Fig. 10
.
pp
, the longitudinal section
Fig. 14.
x
and
y
. Somewhat higher above, the thickening of the membranes is concentrated on the side of the peristome cells that turn towards the inner side of the capsule,
Fig. 11
.
pp
, then the thickening becomes smaller and smaller and divides into two cords at half the height of the peristome,
[original page 576]
Fig. 12
.
pp
, to finally finish somewhat below the apex of the capsule,
Fig. 13
.
pp
. The structure of the capsule above the separation of the teeth is essentially comparable with that described for
Barbula
(
Fig. 12
). *)
The annulus is formed by considerably small, flattened cells (Tab. LIX.
Fig. 14.
a
).