Ce LPP era MTOR” zoe 
Or true MOSSES. 
The frudification of thefe vegetables, commonly known 
by the name of Anthera, or Urn, is uniform and conftant 
in all the family.. It has the fhape of a little club, more 
or lefs elongated (See Fig. 3..7. 14). 
_ lt is compofed. , 
{ of a fingle piece in the ah of a tube;. 
The Pericheti- | in. the je pains the Mnium, and Polytri- 
UM». 2 cum (Fig. 1.8A, Fig, 15. C.): _ of 
| feveral pieces, or foliola, more or lefs 
; Imbricated, as in the Hypnum and the 
L Fontinahs (Fig. 3. 7. 16.C.). 
fits fefhle in the Pha/cum and the Font:- 
vig, Malbec (Eiger Osi. tat..)2 flanding upon a fila- 
An Anthera,¢ ment. of “different lengths in the Bryum, 
or Urn. | the Aypnum, the Polytricum, the Splach- 
Lnum and the Mnium (Fig. 7. 13.).. 
The urn before its maturity is compofed. 
{ more or lefs fubulated in almoft every 
| one (Fig. 9. 13-); andin the form ofa 
Of an Operculum, < chapiter of acolumn in the Polytricum,. 
or Opercull:. | and fome fpecies of the Bryum (Fig. 
LL. Baul 
(It is {mooth and more or lefs tranf— 
parent in-the greater part (Fig. 4. 5. 
Of a Calypira, or | 7.): hairy and coloured in the Poly- 
Caw], 4 ¢ricum,. and,in the Mnium Polytri- 
chades (Fig. 6. 8.). There is none 
in the Sphagnum, and it is very ca- 
Lducous in the Phafcum. 
When thefe parts are ripe, the opercule and calyptra 
fall off ; then the urn appears mutilated at its extremity, 
and the orifice, or opening, is either naked or covered with 
cilia. . Such: 
