The illustrations in this section are derived from two of the recommened moss ID manuals, and are included for educational puroposes and as examples of the benefits of owning these books, and hopefully not as instances of unauthorized use of copyrighted material that would attract the attention of the esteemed counsel for Wm. C. Brown or Columbia University Press. The pictures on the left hand panels show a general array of leaf features from Conard, Henry S. and Paul L. Redfearn, Jr. 1979. How to know the mosses and liverworts, 2nd ed. Wm. C. Brown Co. Dubuque, Iowa. On the right are examples of specific mosses displaying particular leaf features from Crum, Howard, and Lewis E. Anderson. 1981. Mosses of Eastern North America: In Two Volumes. Columbia University Press, New York.