LIFE HISTORY OF A MOSS
Ever since the war, the peat-forming mosses, known as sphagnum, have become more widely known to the general public than any of the ten or twelve thousand mosses known to grow on the earth. Its power of absorption, greater than linen bandages, made it extensively used to pad surgical dressings. Hundreds of thousands of these sphagnum
A Small Cloud of Wind-Blown Pollen of the Japanese Red Pine (Pinus densiflora). (Photo by C. Stuart Gager. Courtesy of Brooklyn Botanic Garden.)