Genus Poly iridium \ with feme Emendations. 7$ 



and entire on their edges, with greeniiri middle nerves, ending in 

 long filaceous tips. — The peduncle is from two to four inches long, 

 of a fhining deep orange colour, and ifluing from the top of the 

 ftalk out of a tubular fheath about a quarter of an inch in length. — 

 The capfule is quadrangular, with an apophyps at the bafe, and is of 

 a greeniih colour when young, but reddifh. when ripe : the opercu- 

 lum is flat or rather concave, with a fmall point proje&ing from the 

 centre. — The exterior calyptra is ferruginous, and about double the 

 length of the inner one. 



10. Polytrichum pil/ferum, fol. lanceolatis confertis intcgerrimis 

 rigklis apice piliferis, capfuia quadrangulari, apophyfi fub- 

 jecta. 



P. commune var. y . Linn. Sp. PL 1573. Dill. Mufc. 426. /. 54. f. 3. 

 P. piliferum Sehreb. Spicil. 74. n. 103 1. 

 Habitat in ericetis, et pafcuis montofis Anglue, 8cc. 



This grows fingle, from half an inch to an inch and half in height, 

 and is naked at the bottom, but at the top it is fumifhed with a 

 crowded duller of leaves. — The leaves are ihort, lanceolate, thick, 

 ftifF, and crowded, entire on the edges, and each tipt with a white 

 hair. — The peduncle is ftiff, reddifh, and from half an inch to up- 

 wards of an inch in length, arifing from the top of the ftalk out of 

 a tubular pcrichatium. — The capfule is fmall, nodding, and quadran- 

 gular, with a diftincl: apophyjis at its bafe : the operculum^ like the 

 preceding, is concave, with a fmall mucro ifluing from the centre. 

 —The exterior calyptra is fometimes reddiih, but generally of a dark 

 ferruginous colour, and about as long again as the inner one. 



L 2 11. Poly- 



