808 
CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Bryum. (B. 4. 3) 
sels sap Br. Capsules egg-oblong, toothed: shoots very muc 
br anehes ve 8 
canes’cens. 
Var 
branched, 
h 
eaves crowded, spear-shaped; curled 
when 
ae stirp. ii, 31—Dill. 48, 41. 
Resembles the Br. cirrhatum so much that they are not to be 
distinguished without maceration. That however is a more 
slender plant, has fewer fruit-stalks, and the capsules are paler. 
Dit. 
Br. cirrhatum. 6 Wuds. Mn. cirrbatum. Bot. arr. ed. ii. 
Fissidens Nall 2 Hedw. Hypz. sa i Gmelin. Syst. ms 
On igen [ About Lanberris. Mr. GrirrirH Autu 
mentions a var. with much sillier leaves, it is the Be, 
Be oni y Huds 
Br. Capsules egy-oblong: leaves crowded, spear-shaped, 
bent back, white haired at the ends. 
Hedw. stirp, iti. 3-Vaill, 26. 14—Dill, 47. 27. D. Ew F. 
Stem upright when young, afterwards declining, and sending 
out a few branches of various lengths. Leaves spear-shaped, 
keeled, wee to when dry. Frurt-stalk straight, aot an inch 
in height. Capsule oblong-egg-sha d. Lid a slender cone. . 
ae fringed with 16 long hair-like teeth, divided down to 
base. Veil slcpdet, long, ragged at the bottom. Fruit. 
stalls lateral. Hepw 
- Bryum hypnoides B Fi. Suec. Trichostomum canescens. Hedwe 
stirp. ili. p. 5. Differs from the B. hypnoides 8 its upright 
stem, its leaves being very aehiey serrated only at the ends, 
and in its longer fruitstalk. Hep hen conte as grow~ 
ing, Pilato green, when dry woolly: tan the number of hairs 
ich terminate the leaves. Dit. 
amet’ in dry, hi igh, barren, sandy places. Blackheath, 
Woolwich, Hampstead, Enfield Chace, and eae d heath. 
Dit. b, March. P, 
Var. 2. Shoots simple, or but little eee 
- Dill, 47627 6.Ae B: Ci 
About 1} inch high. Frait-sta/k lateral. Capsules sprigs 
ofp spline: Leaves spear-shaped, slender, keeled, hair~ 
pointed; hairs grey and bent loans when d 
cimen from Mr. Griffith, accompanied by others of @ 
tunted growth, on 7 rocks, not + inch high, and very y mach 
ccowrdiid with leave 
fe de Lede spear-awl-shaped, mid-ribbed; shoots 
Dill.'47. 29. 
This was considered by Mr. Hudson as a var. of the hyp- 
noides, but though the shortness of the fruit-stalks Ecos that 
