?52 Of THE MBICH.STIUM 



species. See EngL Bat. t, 1037—9, 1182, 

 1445 — 8, &c. ; see also the same part in 

 Neckera^ t, 1443, 4. Linnssus cippearsby 

 his manuscripts to have intended adding 

 this to the different kinds of calyx, though 

 it is not one of the seven enumerated in 

 his printed works. Nor is he, surely, cor- 

 rect in allowing it to the genus Jnnger- 

 mannia. The membranous part which he 

 there calls periclicetiuin' is strictly analo- 

 gous indeed to the calyptva^f. 151, 152 b, 

 or veil of real mosses, esteemed by him a 

 kind of calyx; but as I presume with Schre- 

 ber, to reckon it rather a corolla, and Hed- 

 wig once thought the same, and as Jiinger- 

 maiiJiia has more or less of a real calyx 

 besides, f. 152 a, see Engl. Bof, t. 77 1» 

 &c., I would no longer apply the term 

 perichcetiian to this genus at all. 



The part called calyptra being removed 

 from the list, as being a corolla, the peri- 

 chaiium takes its place among the seven 

 kinds of calyx. We lay less stress upon 

 this coincidence than Linnaeus might have 

 done, when, according to the fashion of 

 the times, he condescended to distribute 



