Introduction Visual Glossary About Mosses 1. Quick Guides to Habitats Moss Map 1: Living Trees Moss Map 2: Woody Debris Moss Map 3: Acid Boulders Moss Map 4: Boreal Forest Floor Moss Map 5: Limy Boulder and Cobble Moss Map 6: Acid Ledges Moss Map 7: Limy Knolls and Ledges Moss Map 8: Rocky Woodland Stream Moss Map 9: Forest Floor in a Medium-Fertility Swamp Moss Map 10: Bog Pond, Open Bog, Spruce-Tamarack Swamp Moss Map 11: Rich Fen, Cedar Swamp 2. Quick Guides to Acrocarps About Acrocarps Dominant Acrocarps Acrocarps With Distinctive Shoots Acrocarps With Distinctive Leaves Ordinary Acrocarps With Sharp-Tipped Linear-Lanceolate Leaves Ordinary Acrocarps With Lanceolate Leaves Ordinary Acrocarps With Long-Tipped Leaves Ordinary Acrocarps With Oval or Oboval Leaves Acrocarps With Gemmae or Brood Branchesor Leaves Whose Tips Break Off Acrocarp Capsules 3. Quick Guides to Pleurocarps About Pleurocarps Dominant Upland Pleurocarps Dominant wetland and Stream-Bank Pleurocarps Treelike Pleurocarps Pleurocarps With Pinnate Branches Pleurocarps With Flattened Shoots Worm-Branched Pleurocarps Shaggy Pleurocarps Small Stringy Pleurocarps Straight-Leaved Pleurocarps With Slender Leaf Tips Broad-Leaved Pleurocarps With Oval or Oblong Leaves Falcate-Secund Pleurocarps, Not Pinnate Pleurocarps With Brood Branches Pleurocarp Capsules 4. Quick Guides to Sphagnum About Sphagnum The Sections of Sphagnum Colored Sphagnums Dominant Sphagnums, Covering Large Areas Sphagnums With Distinctive Heads Sphagnums With Distinctive Branches and Branch Leaves Sphagnums With Recurved Branch Leaves Sphagnums With Distinctive Stem Leaves Two Difficult Species 5. Systematic Sections Acrocarps Pleurocarps Sphagnum.