CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Fontinalis. a7 
Exceedingly small ; about 1-8th of an inch Nigh, upright, 
sometimes sending out one or two branches at the ba aves 
leaves, but mostly terminating, solitary, or in pairs, naked or 
distinct, though the: leaves extend beyond them ; "chen ripe 
rownis ICKS. 
_Stining Earth-moss.. P. axillare. Dicks. i, 2. Bogs on 
ept. 
Py, Stemless : fruit-stalk thrice the length of the leaves: rec ‘tum, 
leaves spear-shaped, mid-ribbed, fine pointed. 
Piate XVIII. f 1. 
Fruit-stalk and capsule a rich chesnut red. cho gn 
straight, sometimes two from the same root. Leaves 5 0 
Whole plant the twentieth of an inch in height. Capate not 
wrinkled. 
Specimens from J. W. Grirrrrn, Esq. who found it amongst 
aaah in the front of Garn House, very near the road leading to 
enlla 
FONTINATLIS. Capsule nearly sitting, furnished 
ee a om and surrounded by a tiled invo- 
Mats, ner axillary ; on the same plant. 
s. Differing from Hypxom in ee ba tthe Capsule not 
being nappoecel on a fruit-stalk, Wer 
F, Capsules lateral: leaves acute, keeled, doubled toge- antipyre'tica. 
er, disposed in 3 rows . 
Dill, 33. 1-E. bot. 359-Vaill. 33. 5-H. ox. xv. 6. 32- 
Kniph. 12-Buxb. iii. 69. 2-Mich, 59. 9-Schmid. 58. 4- 
Hedw. hist. i. 56 a ii. 9. Ss 5 54, 55; and 1s 5s 
Shoots a foot long or more, branched. ‘The primary shoo 
sends out lateral and naceedend ones, and these branch out 
again. Neck. Floa in the water. Leaves two or three 
lines lon » and half 2 as eae very entire at the edge. Capsules 
lateral, in the bosom of the Jeaves, on very short fruit-stalks, in- 
closed in a leafy scaly involucram. Veil conical. Ly onical, 
gust starting with a spring from the ripe capsule, Fringe sur- 
rounding a centra) point, wi ae Ditie 
