Download or read book Manual of the Mosses of Western Pennsylvania (Classic Reprint) written by Otto Emery Jennings and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Manual of the Mosses of Western Pennsylvania So far as it has been possible to do so the descriptions of the various species have been drawn up from specimens col lected in the region covered by the Manual. Where speci mens of species reported as occurring in the region or thought likely to be eventually discovered in the region have not been available for description, the description has been in part com piled and in part drawn up from specimens from other regions. It has been the aim to represent by original drawings, com pletely and in considerable detail every species of which speci mens collected in the region of the Manual have been available. In the list of specimens, which, in the Manual, follows the description of each species, the particular specimen figured has been so indicated and the fact that the specimen has been thus figured has been recorded on the pocket containing the speci men in the Herbarium of the Carnegie Museum. All drawingsare the work of the author alone, and, with the exception of a few of the larger habit sketches, all drawings have been first traced by means of the camera luc - ida, thus insuring a reason able degree oi accuracy in the relative position, shape, and size of the various structures figured. The drawings of most of the dissections have been made from permanent glycerine jelly mica-covered slides which are to be found in the Her barium in the proper pocket with the specimen. 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.