Genus Polytrichum ; with fome Emendations. 69 



This has nojlalk. — The leaves are lanceolate, obtufe, thick, fhort,. 

 arid rigid, without any apparent middle nerve, and entire on the 

 edges : they are crowded round the bafe of the peduncle ; of a dark 

 green colour when recent, but blackifh when dried. — The peduncle 

 is from a quarter to about three quarters of an inch long, of a 

 dark reddiih colour, and furrounded at the bafe by a vaginal peri- 

 chtetium. — The capfule is fhort, turbinated and fomewhat erect : the 

 operculum is flat, but pointed in the centre, and the rim is confpi- 

 cuoufly fringed with minute dents. — The exterior calyptra is conical, 

 of a dark ferruginous colour, and about twice the length of the 

 inner one. 



Dr. Swartz having lately fent me a fpecimen of his P. pumilum i I 

 carefully compared it with the above, and found it to be the fame 

 fpecies. 



3. Polytrichum nanum t fol. lanceolatis obtufiufculis, apice ob- 

 fcure ferrulatis, capfula hemifphaerica cernua. 



Mni u m polytrichoides Linn. Sp. PI. 1 5 7 6. Dill. Mufc. tab. 5 5. f. 6. 



G. H. I. K. L. ? 

 P. nammHedw. Stirp. Crypt, vol. 1. 35. tab. 13. 

 Hab. in ericetis, et locis aridis Aiglia, &c. 



This fpecies has fcarcely any fialk. — The leaves are lanceolate, 

 fomewhat obtufe, and entire on the edges towards their bafe, but 

 flightly ferrulated towards their tips : they are not fo thick and 

 (tiff as in the preceding fpecies, but are fomewhat longer, — The pe- 

 duncle is from half an inch to upwards of an inch long, of a deep 

 orange colour, and arifes out of a vaginal perichatium about one 

 tenth of an inch long. — The capfule \% fhort, hemifpherical, a little 

 inclined or fomewhat nodding, and the rim is beautifully fringed 



with . 



