CRYPTOGAMIA, MUSCI. Bryum.°(B.2) 799 
ii Dichse hes. and fasce Whe 750» ail 
f Pads strong, brown. Shoots nearly vu; ba sl de Lace 
toothed, twisted at the end; with a m rae ee gy very blun 
Veil bellying; c Ss at the base Dick 
Barren vali places. OF ad ?, 
Br, Capsules ceg-cylindvieal, mouth via a metnanact fexifolium, 
nge: shoots nearly stemless ; aeares wave 
speat-shaped, sceestad. Dicks. 
Dicks. fase. ii. 7. 9. 
‘From 2 to4lines high. Leaw es crowded, neahe but ex- 
panding, acute, kee serrated opieatds; yellow green, twisted 
when . Fruit- talk terminating, near +-inch high, pale, 
ellow. Capsule cyineaical but a little swollen at the base. 
Lid conical, blunt, rather thicker at the top. Veil awl-shaped. 
On barren sloping ground near Croydon, Dickson. 
Br. Cipiutes cylindrical: involucrum leaves blunt, led conivols tum 
o form a cylinder: leaves spear-sha 
Dicks. h. s.-Hedw. stirp. 1. 32-Dill. 48. 44-Schmid. 57.5. 
Grows in dense tufts, > an inch or-more in height ; branches 
issuing od of the Phichted tops of the old shoots, which are 
stellated at the ends. Leaves loosely disposed, ending in hairs. 
Fruit-stalks from the last year’s shoots, i inch long, encom- 
s broa 
a ring ; oe red. Lid slender, Sy ails shaped. Pel 
r 
Ba. Capsules roundish, somewhat bent, toothed and dealba’tum, 
fringed : leaves spear-shaped, acute, expanding 
Dicks. 1.8, 
Dicks. 5.35 ab. ¢. 
“ that of Bre trichodes, from which it differs as follows. 
Leav, ar-shaped, mostly pale, under the microscope reticu- 
td, pel “6° Fi) but obscurely serrated at the end. Li, 
gyn hah in m Seoksls on Ben Lawers. 
