CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Bryum. (D. 1) 
Grows in patches, about 2 an inch high, dividing into cylin- 
drical shoots 2 or 3 lines long. Leaves egg-spear-shaped, ending 
in hairs, but so pressed to the stem as hardly to be discernible to 
the naked eye. Frait-stalks from the base of the — near % 
aninch high. Capsules Bg shaped, upright when green, pens 
dent when ripe. Lid short, blunt.» Mouth fringed. Veil deci- 
uous. Weis. In autumn and eaily i in winter green, afterwards 
7 shining, silvery white, especially when dry, which circumstance 
Zie’rii. 
geri’ceum, 
one is sufficient to distinguish it from all other mosses, Din. 
Sunny banks, walls, roofs, and rocks. P, Oct.—Feb. 
Var. 2. Shoots greener. Leaves not hairy. 
Dill, 50. 63. 
Pale or darker a sometimes shining. Leaves 
sontes than in (1.) not hairy. Cafsu/e, mouth: not fringed. 
"On the erav el walks of the Oxford Physic Garden. Dit. 
Jan.—March. 
Br. Capsules club-shaped, long: shoots cylindrical: root- 
ves expanding, longer than the stern-leaves. 
Dicks. il. 8. 
Dicks. 4. 10. 
Shoots fienple, Upright, pointed, of a flesh-coloured whitish 
en tow end. Leaves closely tiled, pressed toy 
= =e ; pel ribless, transparent, the ends when io re- 
on a enickat fruit-stalk, in the dry plant hoe very 
much elongated and . tapes ¥ the base, the surface somewhat 
granulated. Fring wath ate y teeth. ‘Lid short, pyramidal. 
Veil not chest Se 
st banks in the Highlands. Near pperieldy [Crib y 
Dideseil, arctan October. Mr. Garirritu. | 
Br. Capsules cylindrical ; lids menser: dogyer-pinted 
shoot simple : leaves egg-spea r-shaped, ¢ closing. 
Hedaw. hist. i. 4. 16 to 19~Dill. 50. G1—Hedaw. stirp. 1. 40 
About 2 an inch high. Stamens and pistils in the same flow- 
er. Fruit-stalk from 1 to 2 inches hi igh. Capsules pendent, but 
~ discharging their seeds upright. Lid convex, beak very 
nge double, each of 16 teeth. peor Stems 
hl Lower "leaves few, shrivelled, brown. Upper. Je eayes fine 
pale green. Plants without capsules, taller. 
ebera nutans. Hedwig. Bryum sericeum, Habe, and Bot. 
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