CRYPTOGAMIA. MISCELLANE:. Pilularia. 
ranches contracted at the last year’s shoots, as in the female 
of a Polytrichum commune. Leaves itled, in fives, ex- 
panding, decurrent. Linn. a branched. ‘Trailing stem very 
long. Upright shoots from 1 to 22 inches high, generally 
& ch Clab-moss. On the mountains of Caernarvonshire. 
Ray Syn. [About 200 yards meee west of Llyn y Cwn, Caer- 
Saeronhire Mr. Grirrirs. | une—Sept. 
L, Leaves pointing 4 ways; tiled, cee stems upright; 
spikes sitting ; cylin 
Ey bot. 234—Dill, 58. 2-Fi. lapp. 11. ware dan. 79-F. B. 
iii. 767.1. 
Stem creeping, from a span to a foot long. Branches alter- 
€, at an inch distant from each other, upright, forked, of the 
length ofa little finger. Little branches bundl led, from 20 to 30 
together, exactly four-cornered, the a: unt. Leaves 
thickish. Fra ruit-stalks terminating a branch here and there, 
the b panches, covered with smaller eaves, bearing as many 
a Spikes egg-shaped, nearly smooth. Linn. All the branches 
owe and frequently subdivided into foaike Dizi. Upright 
shoots 17 to 3 inches long ; thinner than the spikes which they 
sup 
Mountain Club-moss. Mountainous heaths in Yorkshire, 
Cumberland, and the mountains of Wales, the Highlands and 
Hebrides. [ Near the top of Ingleborough, Yorkshire. Curt. obs, 
133% ~<a the Holme, ena 5 miles from Burnley, Lancashire. 
ti WARD. O w barrow, in Furness Fells, along 
bores “Seliga. Mr. Taceund P. July—Oct. 
PILULA’RIA. Calyx common woolly, globular, 
4-celled; opening in 4 directions: anthers 
many: Sra: pistils many: style none. 
r : 
E. bot. 521—Dill. 79-Fl. dan. 223-Bull. 375—Bolt. 40~Pet. 
9. 8-Vaill. 15. 6—Pluk. 48. 1-H, ox. Xv. 7-49. 
ender, trailing, striking root at the joints, and sending 
out delicate slender leaves, 2 or 3 inches long, generally 3 from 
a joint. Fructificarions —_— like pepper corns, on she § 
short pedicles at the base of rs e cma 
5 
been seer tee especially . a sere soil. Near ham 
Wells ; Petersfield ; and on Hounslow Heath. [Hainford and 
Stratton oe Norfolk, sia Crowe, St. Faith’s Newton 
743 
alpi‘num. 
globulifera. 
