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
67
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journal article
978-2-8277-0083-7
10.5281/zenodo.5729519
Fissidens adiantoides
.
Especially in the longitudinal section, the capsule shows an exceptional regularly formed tissue, its structure is very similar to
Dicranum
.
*) The Messrs. Bruch and Schimper in the cited puplication, Fasc. XXXVII-XL
Dicranum
p. 6 state: “The dorsal side of the teeth is covered by a fine striated cell membrane, the commissures of them are scarcely visible because they have been overlooked till now. This membrane is a typical peculiarity of all real
Dicranaceae
”. No wonder that this membrane has been overlooked till now, because it does not exist at all
.
[original page 577]
The partial thickening of the sixteen peristome cells (here also on the walls orientated towards the inner-side of the capsule), at about half the height of the structure, the peristome divides into two cords for each cell.
It must be noticed that, at its base, the peristome gradually becomes smaller,
Fig. 17.
p
, and does not stand out abruptly as a tissue of thickened cells as in
Dicranum
;
furthermore that the horizontal separating walls of the cell layer neighbouring the peristome cells on the inner side are partly strongly thickened, therefore the peristome seems to be carved at the inner side,
Fig. 17
.
tt
, which in this extent is not the case in mosses with simple peristomes that I could see. At the place of the annulus are small thick-walled cells (Tab. LX.
Fig. 17
a
).