7*> Mr. Menzies'j Arrangement of tht 



II. Polytrichum>»/>««« ot , fol. lineari-Ianceolatis mucronatis 

 patulis, marginibus inflexis integerrimis, capfula quadrangular!, 

 apophyfi fubjeda. • Tab. 6. Fig. 4. 



P. jumperlnum mild. Ft. Bercl. 305 (exclufo Synon. Dillen.) 

 Hat. in ora occidental! America Septentrlonalls. 



The Jlalk is erea, from two to three inches high, and rather 

 naked at the bottom—The leaves are fpreading, linear-lanceolate 

 and ending with rtiarp points, flightly hifpid : their edges are en- 

 tire, and fold in flat upon the furface of the leaf from both fides — 

 The peduncle varies from an inch and half to about three inches' in 

 length, and is clofely furrounded at the bafe by a cylindrical tube or 

 pencbatwm, which is about a quarter of an inch long, iflhins-from 

 the top of the ftalk.-The capfule is quadrangular, with an apophyfis 

 at the bafe ; the operculum is flat but pointed in the centre, and the 

 rim is fringed with a regular-row of about fixty-four whitifli dents 

 -The exterior cafyptra is long and fubulate, whitifli at the bottom' 

 but ferruginous at the tip, and about double the length of the in' 



ner one 



All authors I know of, who have taken up P. jumperlnum, de 

 fcr.be it with entire leaves, yet make no fcruple in quoting f or it 

 D,ll. Mufc .424. , 54 f. 2 . ^ich that accurate author defcribes and 

 figures with ferrated leaves : it is therefore very evident the aZ 



tation mnlr he errrm^i.e i uv ^ 



tation muft be erroneous. 



Not, TtePoIytnchum puhendentum in Gmek Stf. Nat. belongs, I believe, to tf», 

 fea IO „ 5 but as I have not been able to procure a fight of the plantlfelf, or even of he 

 figure of * quoted from Reyna, J*. Laufanu. I could not take it up in this Arrlg 



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