CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Phascum. 
D; chs. i 2: 
It has the habit of the Ph. serratum, but is rather larger, the 
shoots longer; the space betwixt the joints longer, and the leafits 
bluntly toothed and reticulated. Dicks. 
Discovered by Mr. E. Forster, junior, growing on clay near 
Walthamstow. 
alternifo'lium Pu. Fertile stems short: barren stems taller, upright: 
ted D 
eaves alternate awl-shaped. Dicks. 
Dicks. & Pr 
SHoots undivided, 1-Sth of an igh. Leaves awl-bristle- 
_ shaped, as long again as the capsule. Capsule, one at the end of 
eurvicol lum, 
piiferum, 
ni’tidum, 
each shoot, single, sitting, buried in the leaves, inversely egg- 
shaped, pale yellow. Dicks, 
ternate-leaved ‘Earth-moss. Bogs. [Gamlingay Bogs, 
Cambridgeshire. Mr. Grirriru. | April. 
(2) Capsule on a fruit-stalk, 
Paz. Stemless : fruit-stalks crooked : leaves spear-shaped, 
taper-pointed, expanding. 
Dick. 1. 3—Hedaw. stirp.i. 11. 
Pa. With a stem: leaves oblong, upright, hair-pointed. 
Schreb. phasc. 1. 6 to 10. 
Stem upright, unbranched. Leaves spear-shaped, ending it 
long hairs, ‘tiled upwards, upright but copending ” Fruit-stalk 
extremely short. WuLren. 
Pu. With a stem: capsules not taller than the Jeaves+ 
leaves awl-shaped, keeled, somewhat. bundled. 
Hedw, stirp. is 34-Dicks. Le Se 
