The Bryophytes of Connecticut (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Bryophytes of Connecticut The plants treated in the present report are largely neglected by collectors, partly on account of their small size and the difficulties encountered in their identification, partly on account of their slight value from an economic standpoint. To the student of botany, however, and especially to the morphologist and taxonomist, they are of exceptional interest. The morphologist finds among them all gradations between simple and more complex types of structure, and is thus enabled to gain some idea of the way in which the higher plants may have been derived from the lower, while the taxonomist obtains from them a series of distinct and attractive genera and species, which offer for his solution many complicated problems in variation and geographical distribution. In presenting to the botanists of Connecticut some account of the work which has been done on the Bryophytes within the state, it is hoped that more interest in this neglected group of plants may be aroused. The report includes a general description of the Bryophytes as a whole and of the six subdivisions or orders into which it seems advisable to divide them. It also contains keys, more or less artificial, to aid in the identification of those species which have been detected in Connecticut. But it makes no attempt to describe or illustrate the genera and species represented, and is not intended as a substitute for the works in which such descriptions and illustrations are to be found. The student who makes a careful study of our Mosses and Hepatics will still find it necessary to use books of this character in order to confirm the determinations made by the keys, but the report should make the work of determination more decisive by indicating which species are to be expected in our region. 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.