Excerpt from How to Know the Mosses: A Popular Guide to the Mosses of the Northeastern United States; Containing Keys to Eightly Genera and Short Descriptions of Over One Hundred and Fifty Species With Special Reference to the Distinguishing Characteristics That Are Apparent Without the Aid

The object of this book is to present mosses in a simple, non-technical way, so that the student may recognize at least their genera and in some cases their species without depending upon the use of a lens. The books on mosses that have been published up to the present time have required the use of a hand-lens or microscope in order to follow either the Keys or the descriptions. Wonderful and, interesting detail in structure is revealed by this higher method of study, but mosses would remain unknown to many if no simpler and quicker way of learning them was pre sented.

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