804 CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Bryum. (B. 4. a} 
‘There is not any figure of this. The plant is brown green 
4 or 5 inches long, branches few, very short ; fruit-stalk scarcely 
longer than the leaves. Shoot distinct, composed of a bundle of 
brown red fibres. Specimen from Mr, Dickson. 
B. Capsules on fruit-stalks. upRIGHT. 
(4) Stems upright. 
a. Capsules roundish. 
serrated, reticulated. Dicks. il. 
Dicks. 4. 64 a. 6. 
Shoots upright. Leaves distant, rather pointed, of a res 
markable net-work texture, transparent, serrated towards the 
end, below very entire. Fruit-stalk from the base of the plant« 
Caps. teeth bent in. Drcxs, 
« On Ben High in the Highlands, 
teticula'tum. Br. Capsules pear-shaped, toothed: leaves egg-shaped, 
4, 
penna’tum. Br. Capsules very small: fruit-stalks terminating : shoot 
simple, upright, wing-cleft : leaves pointing 2 ways, 
spear-shaped, very entire. 
Hedw. stirp, 1. 29-Dicks. 1. 4+ 
Plant $ inch high; naked at bottom. Barren stems wing- 
very lunt, reddish. Fringe naked. Dicx, Veil falling off 
entire. Hepwtc. 
Mnuium Osmundaceum. Dicks. fasc. i. Gymnostamum penna- 
tum. Hedwig. Hollows in old hedge banks, in a rich soil on 
the road from Zele to S. Tawton, 4 miles from Okehampton, 
von, Mr. Newberry. B, April—June- 
verticilla’tumBr. Capsules small, roundish: fruit-stalks twisted when 
ty: Ft all of the same height: leaves hau- 
in * 
Dicks, A. s—Dill. 47. aoe n 
Grows in dense tufts. Stems slender, adhering closely toge- 
ther, about an inch high; branched, Leaves hair-like, fine pal 
green, towards the bottom of the plant whitish. Fruit-stalks 
sumerous, short, pale, terminating. Capsules small, tf shy 
