Var 
som of ao leaves. Hup 
CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Mniuni. 
last t year’s shoots, which now likewise support new Pisisisine nt 
sules it 
bogs and wet beast marshes and Beste [Near B 
gays Sf Mr. Stone.) P. June, July, 
. Stem — upright, Fruit-stalks from the bo- 
” pak 3. 4 
Stem sometimes simple. Ditt. 236. Fertile flowers not dis- 
» Dit. iz R, Syx. 78.2. 3.—Smaller than the preceding. 
Fr ch shall slay numerous, not terminating in capsules, but 
in small globular heads ephtainins a powder. Seems to be the 
male plant. 
-M. ramosum. Huds. ed. is 403, and Gmelin Syste vege 
purpu‘reum, Ms. Capsules nearly cylindrical : ’ fruit-stalks axillary : 
shoots b 1 
ranched :, leaves oblong, acute, keeled. 
. Dill. 40. 51-H: ox. xv. 6. row 4. 4, some of the » fruit-stalks 
terminating. 
Grows in very dense patches. Svem rate, mostly forks 
and these shoots sometimes dividin ain. Leaves spear-awl- 
‘form 
ag . 
~ shaped, in some shoots forming terminating stars. Fruitestalls 
an inch high, at first upright, afterwards a little leaning. Lid 
ty pointed, scarlet. Veil upright, aft erwards oblique» 
um 
EBryum purpureum. Huds. and Lightf. Dicranum purpureum. 
Hedwig. Walls, heaths, rocks, and gravelly banks and pas- 
tures. April. 
Var. 2. Leaves less rigid ; spear-shaped. 
Dill. 49. 52. 4 
Leaves ending in hair-like points. Capsule finely pointed. 
ott Moor on the borders of Lancashire and Shobd 
Marsh, Flerafondshine, [Near Llyn Aled Lake. Mr. raed :) 
(4) Capsules drooping. 
arcua’tum, “My. ies Sasdes globular, toothed : shoots branched : leaves 
oblo 
ong-spear-shaped, taper-pointed, scored. Dicks- 
Dicks. b. s. and fase. iii. 7. 3-Dill. 39. 36- 
Leaves upright but spreaging ; serrulated. Male flower tet 
minating, star-like. Fruit-stal/k terminating, crooked, SU 
rounded by jong shoots. Caps. mouth narrow. Fringe, tect 
short, upright, acute, red. Lid minute, scarcely beaked. D1ck* 
The fuscous woolly matter which surrounds: the shoot is a 6" 
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