Excerpt from Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 1894, Vol. 21 The specimens are abundantnd in fine condition. The two upper ones on the right are marked b. B and are the ones re ferred to in the label as having been sent to him by Palisot de Beauvois. In two little packets are preserved the peristome, bracts and leaves which were used in making the drawings for t. 54, and are correctly represented in the figures, excepting that the teeth are drawn with too many joints, the originals having only 6-8 segments, the three upper being longer than broad, papillose and striolate. In one capsule, from which the lid had just fallen, the teeth were 11nited by a hyaline membrane, forming rudimentary cilia. The teeth are set deep, with an annulus of two rows of thin cells projecting above the rim of the capsule, which is also bordered by three or four rows of darker brown and denser cells. The preperistome, if present, is very difficult to see, though I did not care to examine but one capsule in searching for it. The ridges are broad, of 4 - 5 rows of cells, with broad spaces between them, and occasionally traces of narrower ridges with colored cells between them. The stomata are immersed, in two rows between the base of the spore-sac and the mouth, they are closed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.