630 _ CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. lueitah (B. 1) 
_ ‘The most elegant of the genus. Grows in dense broad 
strata. Shoots a span long, flat, a little raised. ap afits closely 
tiled, alternate, i in 2 rows, spear-shape ed, blunt, shining,wrinkled. 
Fruits-stalks % inch long, lateral. Involucrumy leaves paler. 
Capsules nearly a Sugyhaes Lid with a long beak. 
on jonge © From 2 to 12 inches long, crowded and lying 
on another branches comuptessed, blunt, undivided, alter- 
ee or in pairs. Leaves crisp, transversely vat = whole 
] 
plant is pale yom in sas a yellowish in summ 
On chalk hills near Crareetay and. on et of the 
‘Thames out of the tide’s way. t. Vincent’s rocks, and on 
the Welsh mountains. [ About Kirkby ‘Lonsdale, Westmoreland. 
r. J. E. Smrrx. On rocks in Garn Dingle, 3 miles from 
Denbigh. Mr. GruFiTH. | P, March, April. 
me‘dium. H. Shoots creeping: leaves broad, ‘spear-shaped, pointed, 
tiled but open: capsules cylindrical, frmged, 
Dill. 42. 65. 
Crowded together. Leaves pressed when dry. Fruit-stalks 
len, 
less than 3 inch in length. Drit. 
oot of trees in woods in Scotland. 
pulchel'lum. H. Shoots pole et eae ve branches somewhat bundled, 
strap-sh. it-stalks re amen upright, 
Somewhat Piles Dicks. i 
Dicks. h. s. and fac. 5.6. 
er short, crowded in close tufts. Branches nearly equ ual, 
expanding. Leaves near together, egg-s Era fhe ab shining. 
Involucrum short. Pra ising 
s, Scotl kad. 
viticulo'sum. H, Shoots branched, prostrate : leaves mt acute, eX- 
panding : capsules oblong ; lid conic 
Dicks. b. s.—Dill. 39. 43-H. ox. xv. 55 raw 1. (Vi ail, 23s 
1~Pluk. 47. 4. 
Covering the trunks of trees in large patches. Stems fibrous, 
creeping very long, branched. Braxches upright, when dry 
cylindrical, and twisted like a rope. Y fie rfits nearly eriangulat 
the upper ones largest, Fruit-sta/ks about an inch high, rising 
from the bosom of the branches, om of small hairy scaly per 
Capsules small, shining. Zid very short, conical, pom 
Mouth fringed when magnified, smn to the naked eye. W Fis 
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