776 .. CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Splachnum. 
the end of the same shoot. Veil bell-shaped. Casu/e slender, 
— upright. Receptacle large, shaped like an inverted 
Lid convex. — Fringe single, of 8 pair of teeth. 
aw ie Fruita Selick 1 to 3 inches long. Veil very 
small, deciduou 
Pur 5 Beltane Turfy bogs, but only where the dung 
of peb.te has fallen. Linn. Bogs and marshes, and often u 
cow-dung. LicutTr - Bogs about Pia Ferry near South- 
ampton, si sae ickham, and Addington rig Croydon. 
R. Spyz. Flow in May, ripens its ny aid Jo uly. P. Hepw. 
{Geldestone Fen en near Bungay, Suffolk. Mr. fas 
A. Ma tc h-——May. 
angusta'tum. Spr. Boopuce egg-shaped : seule stalk very short: leaves 
errated upwards, hair-pointed. 
Hedw. a. ii. 3% 
Upright, not branched, based one inch high. Leaves larger 
towards the top of the plan eoctiggs a little toothed towards 
theend. Fru:t-stalk aidly rains above the leafy involucrum. 
Capsule cone- shaped, but t lopped, leaning a little. Mouth fringed 
with 8 pairs of teeth. Veil oblique. Hepwic. 
In moist deine situations in Scotland. Dicks. ii. 3. P, 
Brewe’ri. Spx. Receptacle oblong-egg-shaped : leaves spear-shaped, 
| -very entire. 
Hedw. stirp. tis 38. 
Original ies hardly more than an inch long, but peey 
out shoot upon shoot to several inches. Fruit- oie 
inch long, opeight" Receptacle egg-shaped, lo Copia ; 
cylindrical. Lid short. Ring none. Mouth Perved with 10 
wi 
Spl. fastigiatum. Dicxs. Moist heaths near Llyn Dwythwch, 
~ always on rotten cow-dung. Brewer in Dili. 345. Oct.—Jan. P. 
vatum. Spx, Receptacle itivehicly egg-shaped: leaves egg-speat- 
shaped: stem none, ) 
Dill. +4 4—Ray 3.2, at p. 128. 
Leaves broad, shining. Fruit-stalks golden yellow. wig 
A different plant from the Splachnum vas seulosum Linn. 
which Huds. improperly referred it. Dicks. II. 
Rotten round, as in the pastures called Emott Moors 
Lancair, Also in Montgomeryshire, Ditt, On Ben Nevis. 
ICKS 
mnioi‘des, Spy, nee sty conical ; capsule eee cylindae 
eaves spear-shaped, very entire, ending 17 
long a point. 
