ICONES MUSCOttUM. 155 



HYPNUM SCITUM, Beauv. 



Tab. 99. 



Plants mediocres, depresso-caespitosas, colore viridi vcl sub- 

 glauco-viridi in rufo-brunneum vergente insignes. 



Caulis 1-3 uncias loiigus, firmus, prostratus, bi - tripartitus, 

 simpliciter dense pinnato-ramulosus ; ramulis tenuibus. 



Folia caulina late cordato-triangularia, longius tenui-apicu- 

 lata; ramulina minora, cordato-ovata, breviter acuminata, laxius 

 incumbentia, utraque concava erecto-patentia ; costa pellucida 

 ultra medium evanida ; reti e cellulis subrotundis minutissimis 

 chlorophyllosis papillosis formato ; parapbylliis copiosis multi- 

 formibus : pericbaetialia interiora elongato-lanceolata, filiformi- 

 attenuata, longitrorsum plicatulag. 



Flores monoici in caule vel ejus divisionibus. 



Capsula oblongo-cylindracea, erectiuscula, leniter curvula, 

 longius pedicellata, leptoderma, speciose annulata, longius ros- 

 trato-operculata ; peristomio hypnoideo. 



Hypnum scitum, Beauv. Prod. p. 69 ; Brid. Bryol. Univ. 2, p. 575 ; C. Mull. 



Synop. Muse. 2, p. 488 ; Sulliv. Mosses U. States, p. 67. 

 Thuidium scitum, Bryol. Europ. 



Hab. Hilly districts, on roots of trees, particularly tbe Beecb . 



TAB. 99. — Hypnum scitum. 



1. Plantae naturali magnitudine. 12. Pericluetium. 



2. Ramulus. 13, 14. Folia ejusdem. 



3. 4, 5, 6, 7. Folia ejusdem. 15, 16, 17. Capsulse. 



8. Folium areolatum. 18, 19. Particular peristomii. 



9, 10,11. Paraphyllia. 20. Flos masc. perigon. et antherid. 



