68 Mr. Menzies'j Arrangement of the 



SPECIES. 



* Acaulia. 



I. Polytrichum tenue y fol. lanceolatis accuminatis adpreflis inte- 

 gerrimis, capfula cylindrica erecla. 



Mnium. polytrichoides var. y. Linn. Sp. PI. 1577. Bill. Mufc. 434. 



& 55> f I2 - 



Hab. in Nova Scotia, locis ferilibus prope Halifax. 



The leaves of this are but few in number, and prefs clofe round 

 the bale of the peduncle ; the inner ones are longer and more acutely 

 pointed than thofe on the outfide; they are thin, lanceolate, fharp- 

 pointed, and entire on the edges, with a ftrong middle nerve ; and 

 in a dried ftate they are of a reddilh brown colour. — The peduncle 

 is nearly an inch long, of a deep draw-colour, and clofely fur- 

 rounded at the bafe by a tubular perichcztium.— The capfule is cylin- 

 drical and erect; the operculum reddilh, almoft flat, and flio-htly 

 pointed in the centre. — The exterior calyptra is of a light ftiaw- 

 colour, and fomewhat more than double the length of the inner one 

 which is fmooth and of the fame colour, but fomewhat paler. 



2. Pol ytri chum fubrotundum, fol. lanceolatis obtufis integerrimis 

 rigidis, capfula turbinata erectiufcula. 



Mnium polytrichoides Linn. Sp. PI. 1576. Bill. Mufc. 428. / cc 

 /. 6. A. B. C. D. E. F. 



V.fubrotundum Hudf Fl. Angl ed. 1. 400. Scop. Fl. Cam. 134. 



n. 2. Fail/. Par. 131. tab. 26. f. 15. 

 P. pumilum Swartz. in Aft. Stockholm. 1 795. p, 271. 

 Hab. in ericetis, et locis ferilibus Anglic?, &c. 



This 



