CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Mnium. 783 
inches high. Leaves slender, long, ending in along sharp point, 
expanding. Fruit-stalks 1 or 2 inches high, generally eth 
Soieaise cylindrical, thick, a little crooked, scored. Lid, hea 
as long as the capsule. Mouth toothed. Vei/ long. Weis. Fre- 
quently several fruit-stalks in one a WILLDENOW. 
Bryum scoparium. Linn. um scoparium. Hed-~ 
mig. Hea woods, woake of es shady banks, and dry pas- 
P. eae We e and July. Hups. 
re wil eydp BE 
(2) Capsules leaning, roundish. 
My. coe ay eee. lid blunt: shoot sometimes fonta’num, 
right: ‘leaves spear-shaped, slender, 
tent fnvevaids at the points. 
Dill, 44. 2~E. bot. 390-Vaill. 24. 10-Fl. dan. 298-Haps. 
ili. 7-H. ox. xv. 6. row 3. 8-Mich. 59. 4—Pluk. 47. 2. 
The old shoots covered with brown knap, and buried 3 
inches deep. From these proceed slender cylindrical shoots, 
some of which end instars. Frait-stalks 2 inches long; pro- 
ceeding from the shoots of the preceding year. Necx. eadily 
known by its stiff ae Shoots 2 to 4 inches long. Weis. 
Leaves serrated, in the young shoots mostly pointing one 
way. In this s ies, and also inthe Mnium palustre, the fer~ 
tile and barren shoots adhere so closely at bottom as to appear but 
one plant. Leers. 
Br. fontanum. Huds. [Low wet meadows, turf bogs, and 
springs, Earsham. | Near Bungay, Suffolk. Mr. Strong. Cold 
clear streams in Westmoreland on the sides of hills. The veil 
falls off in May. Mr. Goucu.] P. May—Aug. 
My, capalen pear -shaped; lid blunt: senots early uligino’sum, 
bran : leaves oblong-spear-shaped, 
Dicks. * Hebi stirp. i. land 2-Dill, 49. 58 See 
t.  Fruit-stalks 3 inches long, terminating. 
Cap ‘dull y yellow iver, egg-s © le Lid blunt. Grow- 
D pa 
rate flowers. Rimgnone. Fringe andy 16 teeth in each. 
The roots are so rgee attached together, that without great 
Care it breaks off, and the plant appears without a stem. 
