CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Bryum. (B. 1) 795 
Leaves opaké, approaching, rigid, fine green when wet,, dullgreen 
when dry. 
The lower Tone generally lose their terminating hairs. 
When the lid is carefully removed from the Capsulé, the mouth 
of the latter is seen adorned with a conica al pencil of rich saffron 
coloured hairs twisted Gnirally and projecting so as to fill up the 
“Walls, roofs, tiles, stones, rocks and foo ed every- 
where, _P. Nov.— March. 
Br. Capsules aneiely egg-shaped, lopped: lid convex: obtu’sum, 
leayes spear-egg-shaped, taper-pointed. Dicks, 
Dicks. 4.7. a. b. 
“Fringe none. Veil bell-awl- shaped. itot under the mi. 
Pages » sekiealated, finely toothed. Differs from B. truncatu-* 
tum in the beaked lid, and its capsule being fob: &e, irs. 
ones and rocks on Es Crechan, Scotland, 
Br. Capsules egg-shaped: leaves. egg-shaped, concave, ova’tum. 
air-pointed. Dicks. 1. 4. 
Diekte b. s.—Hedw. stirp.i. 0-H. ox. xv.7. 18. 
Very minute; unbranched, with scarcely any stem. Floawers 
terminating. Frujt-sta/k upright, not longer than the danse, 
Veil reddish brown, Lid conical, beak oblique. Very common 
on mud wee spreading in bitae and dense patches; seldom on 
the gro 
Pnsnaiiia ovatum, Hedwig. Pastures, Mud walls, 
April, May. 
Br. epee ablongs tien He leaves concave, egg-awl- pusil‘lum, 
shaped. Dic 
lids stirp. 1, 28. 
Stem ee, upright, very minute, not more than 2 or 3 
lines high. Leaves concave and egg-shaped at the base, but very 
long and. sper. ans ards. Barren flowers in the bosom of ne 
leaves, Fruit-stafks on the same plant, terminating, thrice 
long as the stem, nearly upright. Frizge single, of 16 reath, 
deeply divided, red. 
Trichostomum pusillum. Hedwig. In sandy places. 
A. Feb, March. 
Br. Capsules pear-shaped : leaves flat, oblong, acute. pyrifor’me. 
Dicks, b. s.-E. bot. 413~Dill. 44. 6-Fl. dan. 537. 1-Vaill. 
29. 3-H. ox. xvq7. row 2. 16. p. 031-Buxb. i. 04. 1. 
Fruit-stalks © to 1 inch long. Retu. n. 1015. Leaves 1 line 
