Mass of capillitium and spores orange or golden-yellow; elaters long, simple, 4-5 mic.
Capillitium scanty, composed of elaters habitually irregular and abnormal; the surface variously marked.
Mass of spores and capillitium from reddish-brown to yellow and ochraceous; elaters simple, rarely branched, 4-5 mic.
This is a very curious species of Trichia; it suggests Ophiotheca Wrightii, but the elaters are short and simple, and there is no question as to the spirals upon them.
Mass of capillitium and spores yellow; elaters simple or sometimes branched, 3-4 mic.
Mass of spores and capillitium yellow; elaters simple or sometimes branched, 3-4 mic.
In two or three species the branching appears to be quite regular and not abnormal; still, even in these species, most of the elaters in the sporangia are not branched.
These were first observed by DeBary, in Trichia chrysosperma, but they have since been seen in the elaters of nearly every other species of Trichia, and also in species of Hemiarcyria.
Mass of capillitium and spores yellow; elaters long, simple or sometimes branched a time or two, 4-5 mic.
Mass of capillitium and spores yellowish, ochraceous or olivaceous; elaters simple or sometimes with several branches, 4-6 mic.
The elaters are quite constantly marked by imperfect spirals.
The elaters are never fusiform, the apices always abrupt in their acumination, and the sculpture irregular and uneven.
The elaters of uniform diameter, the apices abruptly narrowed to a blunt point, turned to one side, will serve to distinguish this species from the whole T.
I, the same, moistened so that the elaters are coiled up, × 150.
Lightly breathing upon them will cause the elaters to contract, but in a moment, as soon as the moisture of the breath has evaporated, they will uncoil with a quick jerk, causing the spores to move about considerably.
When the lid is removed, a fine fringe is seen surrounding the opening of the capsule, and serving the same purpose as the elaters of the liverworts (Fig.
The elaters are long-pointed cells, having on the inner surface of the wall a single or double dark brown spiral band.
Elaters mixed with the spores, mostly bispiral (unispiral in n.
Elaters unispiral, some remaining attached to the tips of the valves.
Elaters long, attached to the middle of the valves.
Elaters unispiral, in part adherent to the tips of the valves.
In all cases (except Archidium) a columella is present, and all the cells derived from the archesporium produce spores, no elaters being formed.
In the higher forms a sterile foot and seta is present, and sterile cells or elaters occur with the spores.
The sporogonium even in the simplest forms has a sterile foot, but in this series also the origin of elaters from sterile cells can be traced.
The capsule is similar to that of Anthoceros, but has no stomata, and the elaters have spirally thickened walls.
In all other forms elaters with spirally thickened walls are found.
In the Jubuloideae, which in other respects form a well-marked group, the seta is short and the elaters extend from the upper part of the capsule to the base; at dehiscence they remain fixed to the valves into which the capsule splits.
At maturity the seta elongates rapidly, and the wall of the capsule splits more or less completely into four valves, allowing the elaters and spores to escape.
In these two genera the elaters are attached to a sterile group of cells projecting into the upper end of the capsule, and on dehiscence remain connected with the tips of the valves.
The elaters serve as lines of conduction of plastic material to the developing spores, and later usually assist in their dispersal.
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