68 Mr. Menztes’s Arrangement of the 
SPECIES. 
*® Acaulia. 
1. Porytricuum fenue, fol. lanceolatis accuminatis adpreffis inte- 
gerrimis, capfula cylindrica ereéta. 
Mutwm polytrichoides var. y. Linn, Sp. Ph 1577. Dill. Mufe..434. 
to $50 fr 12 
Hab. in Nova Scotia, locis flerilibus prope Halifax. 
The eaves of this are but few in number, and prefs clofe round 
the bafe of the peduncle; the inner ones are longer and more acutely 
pointed than thofe on the outfide; they are thin, lanceolate, fharp- 
pointed, and entire on the edges, with a {trong middle nerve; and 
in a dried ftate they are of a reddifh brown colour.—The peduncle 
is nearly an inch long, of a deep ftraw-colour, and clofely fur- 
rounded at the bafe by a tubular perichatium.—The cap/ule is cylin- 
drical and ere&t; the operculum reddifh, almoft flat, and. flightly 
pointed in the centre.—The exterior calypira is of a light ftraw- 
colour, and fomewhat more than double the length of the inner one, 
which is {mooth and of the fame colour, but fomewhat paler. 
2. Porytricuum fubrotundum, fol. lanceolatis obtufis integerrimis 
rigidis, capfula turbinata erectiufcula. 
Mnivum. polyirichoides Linn, Sp. Pl.1576. Dill. Mufe. 428. t. 55. 
f-6 A. B.C. DOE. F. 
P. fubrotundum Hudf, Fl. Angl. ed. 1. 400. Scop. Fl: Carn, 134. 
n. 2.» Vaill, Rar, 131. tab. 26. f. 15. 
P. pumilum Swarts. in Aét. Stockholm. 1795+ p. 271. 
Hab, in ericetis, et locis ferilibus Angha, &c. 
This 
