778 
CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Splachnum, 
freelichia’- Spi. Capsule a club-shaped termination of the fruit-stalk: 
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leaves battledore-shaped. 
colour at the edges, thence attaining a membranaceous appear- 
leaves.  Fruitst. pale upwards, of a fine pink colour near the 
base. Caps. a continuation of the fruit-stalk, inversely egg- 
shaped. I have not observed any teeth. Mr. Grirritu. Plant 
about an inch high. Leaves of a beautiful green, broadest at the 
end; mid-rib indistinct, hardly discernible in the lower leaves. 
Fruitst. } inch long. Receptacle very short, and onl 
POLY’TRICHUM. Capsule with a veil: outer 
fringe with 32 sak | | 
Male, a circular bud, on a different plant; 
terminating. Se 
commu’ne, Por. Stem simple; proliferous: leaves strap-spear-shaped, 
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rrulated: capsules oblong, 4-sided: veils woolly. 
Schmid. 5§—Dill. 54. 1-Happ. i. Polytrich. 1-Mich. 593 1+ 
J, E. M, O, P, 2, R.~Blackw. 375—Vaill. 23. 8-Ger- 
1371. $-Gars. 129-Fuchs, 629. 1-Trag. 528. 1-F. Be 
iii. 760. 1—Lon. i. 222. S—Dod. 475. 2-Ger. em. 1559 
right hand fig. of the 3 lowermost-Barr. 251. 3—Kniphs 
12-Trag. 946, the tallest of the. JSigures, rising from @ 
bed of Hypnum sericeum.—Park. 1052, right hand fig- of 
the two uppermost-Lob. obs. 645. 2. ic. ii. 245-Ger. eM 
1559. 2-Ger. 1870. 2—Park. 1307. 3. 
Veil very hairy, hanging down below-the capsule, ragged. Wiis 
From 4. to 12 inches Bok, stiff, stiniche. Fraueatell golden 
LL. 
_ Great golden Maidenbair, or Goldilocks, Woods and moor 
in wet bogey places, ‘ P, May, June 
