"7*o Mr. Mbnzies'j- Arrangement of the 



with minute dents : the operculum is flat, but in the centre very 

 llightly pointed. — The exterior calyptra is fhort and conical, ending 

 in a fmall mucro ; it is of a light ferruginous colour, and double the 

 length of the inner one. 



This and the preceding fpecies have been confounded together 

 by moft authois, although they appear very diftindfc ; and I am 

 doubtful whether Dillenius himfelf has not fallen into this miftake, 

 as he feems to have given both under the fame figure ; but havin^ 

 delineated them on two feparate papers in his original drawings, 

 which are in Sir Jofeph Banks's library, there is reafon to fuppofe 

 that he originally intended them to be diftincl; fpecies. 



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Cattle ftmplicu 



4. Polytrichum aloides, fol. lanceolatis conniventibus obtufiuf- 

 culis rigidis apice ferratis, capfula cylindrica obliquata. 



Mnium polyir'whoides var. fi. Linn. Sp.Pl. 1577. Dill. Mufc. 429. 



'• 55- / 7- Fai11 - Par - I3 1 - *• 2 9-/ L 1 - W"fs Crypt. 173. 

 P. nanum Light/. Fl. Scot. 701. Hudf. Ft. Angl. ecU 2. 470* 

 P. abides Hedw. Stirp. Crypt, vol. I. 37. tab. 14. 

 Hab. in ericetis^ et locis Jlerilibus Angl/'a', &c. 



The Jlalk of this is about a quarter of an inch high. — The leaves 

 are of a dark green colour, and prefs clofe together round the flalk, 

 efpecially in a dried ftate: they are thick, lanceolate, fomewhat 

 obtufe, and finely ferrated towards their tips. — The peduncle is from 

 half an inch to an inch long, of a deep ftraw-colour tinged with 

 red, and iiTuing from the top of the ftalk out of a tubular perichatium 

 •about a tenth of an inch long. — The capfule is cylindrical and a 



little 



