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Definition of Genus bryum
1. Noun. Type genus of the Bryaceae: mosses distinguished by mostly erect and tufted gametophytes and symmetrical short-necked capsules.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Bryum
Literary usage of Genus bryum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nature Library by Doubleday, Page & Co., Firm, Publ (1907)
"Genus BRYUM, Dill. The plants of the genus bryum live on from year to year on
the ground or on rocks, seldom on trees. The stems are covered with small ..."
2. Botany for High Schools and Colleges by Charles Edwin Bessey (1880)
"Even in the same genus some of the species may be dioecious, while others are
monoecious or hermaphrodite ; and occasionally, as in the genus Bryum, ..."
3. Botanical Miscellany: Containing Figures and Descriptions of Such Plants as by William Jackson Hooker (1830)
"... membrane comes to view, showing it to belong to the genus Bryum, or that
division of it called Pohlia by many authors, wanting the interposed ..."
4. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential ...by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1803)
"... to refer this and the preceding to the genus Bryum rather than Mnium, as the
male flowers of the latter ought to be quite naked. ..."
5. Botanical Miscellany: Containing Figures and Descriptions of Such Plants as by William Jackson Hooker (1830)
"... membrane conies to view, shewing- it to belong to the genus Bryum, or that
division of it called Pohlia by many authors, wanting the interposed ..."
6. An Introduction to the Study of Cryptogamous Plants: In Letters by Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (1807)
"Now as these agree likewise in the situation of the peduncles of the fruit, they
might,according to my own opinion,properly be added to the genus Bryum. ..."
7. Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon & Andes: Being Records of Travel on the by Richard Spruce, Alfred Russel Wallace (1908)
"... represented along the banks of the Amazon, but very rarely, by the single T.
agraria, begin to be less scarce ; also the genus Bryum, of which the B. ..."
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