folio’sa. 
sphz'ricum, 
CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Buxbaumia. 
Deep gr reen. Branches sometimes subdivided. Leaves noes 
numerous, triangular, concave. Capsules oblong, on very shor 
fruit-stalks, on eysy part of the stem, pointing one way, Pre: 
enclosed by an involucr. of narrow leafits, ending in bai very 
numerous. Lid Hed Fs brown. Ditt. ighy 
stiff, 9 not upright, more or less branched at the ne 
Neckera heteromalla. Hedw. Hypn. heteromallum. Gmel. 
syste ss Sthagnum arboreum. Huds. n trees, in orchards. 
On apple trees in Coenralh Mr. Stackuouse, P, Dec,—Feb, 
BUXBAUMIA. Capsule on a fruit-stalk : outer 
Tonge with 16 teeth ; zner gcse os ie 
plait 
Male, bud circular. , 
B.Stemless: capsules nearly sitting, surrounded with leaves. 
Dicks, b. s.-Schmidel. buxb. 2, lower part of the plate, cone 
Riots of the figures distinguished by Roman numerals. 
all. enum. 3. 3, at p. 109; bist. 40. 3, at iii. p. 50- 
Dill. 32. 13-Fl. dan. 249. 1~Happ. ii, Phascum 1, tho 
- central plant-Hall, it. helv. 2. 3, in opusc. at p. 308. 
Leaves of the involucrum awned. Wittpenow. Leaves, the 
lowermost open, oblong, the ia ha Pt spear.shaped, 
taper-pointed. Cate sitting. Hups 
7 
hascum montanum. Huds. Phatcww maximum. Lightf. On 
253, and on Hartfell mountain near Moffat. Suerrteup iz Huds. - 
(ce Cennog Rocks, ae about Craig du, by the road side near 
anberris, Mr. GrirFitH. | 
ih Sept, Oct. Ditt.--May—Auvg. Huns. 
SPLACH’NUM. Capsule cylindrical, veil and re- 
ceptacle very large; fringe with 8 teeth. 
Male, bud on a different Plant; circular ter- 
minating. : 
SPL. Receptacle iseane leaves spoon-shaped but taper- 
ing to a slender point. 
said stirp. ii, 1E+E. bot. 785, 
Fruit-stalk very long, greenish and reddish pita Capsule 
very small. Lid blunt. Receptacle green. Linx. THE son. S/o 
wprights hardly one inch high, seldom baaiitheds Leaves dis- 
tant, alternate, spoon-shaped but tapering to a point. Fruit-stalk 
very long, (3 or 4 inches,) upright, terminating, tawny at bot- 
