C RYPTOGAMIA. 
The time of flowering generally coincides with that of | 
the fruit attaining maturity, as happens in other evergreen 
% perennials. Thus, in the PoLtyrricHuM urnigerum, 
- Mn fontanwm, hornum, punctatum, undulatum; Bry- 
um frichodes, ccespiticium, &c. the veils fall off early in the 
spring, and the seed is scattered abroad; whilst-at the 
same time the less obvious unimpregnated gérmens, and 
the male or stameniferous flowers are their 
respective functions. This circumstance has ca’ these — 
ripe capsules to be mistaken for —* and he ee. fal 
the pollen, os A 
» Catyx.or Pericuatium, — 
Both as Mae and Pemaue Acwasue are + Rarnished 
winks an Involucrum, which | gives the outward figure 
flower. This Involucrum in Mosses has attained the 
jate name of Perichetium. It varies more in 
than in the female flowers ; and is more to be @ 
ssdtaliel i The radiated disks of the PoLyTRICHA 
the Mura, are very remarkable, and the scales 
them differ im many respects from the other lea 
plant.. The heads which put forth at the ex 
the Brya have been’ hitherto ‘unnoticed, tho 
contain the parts of fructification, and are 
leafits or scales, different both in shape and size from the 
stem-leaves, Thus in the Bryum rurale, they are not 
_ ite su by non and are shorter than the stern ea . 
in R. cens, Br. scoparium, Br. h 
_ Br. aeSealabe &c. they are broader than the other 
® and more hollow at the base. — iceman eS Ke 
“Re. they are 1 
leaves ; are also concave, egg or §| 
patie of the hairs which a r 
plant. These therefore are truly the calyx, | 
include the florets with stamens Only, we call them 
Pericheetia of the male FLORETS. — 3 
capi les towards their'extremities, § we. female flowers) 
observe that the leaves adjoining to the fruit-stalk are 
rruch more beautiful than those on the stems. But somes 
