"FO Mr. Menztes’s Arrangement of the 
with minute dents: the operculum is flat, but in the centre very 
flightly pointed.—The exterior calyptra is fhort and conical, ending 
in a {mall mucro; itis of alight ferruginous colour, and double the 
length of the inner one. 
This and the preceding fpecies have been confounded together 
by moft authors, although they appear very diftma; and I am 
doubtful whether Dillenius himfelf has not fallen into this miftake, 
as he feems to have given both under the fame figure: but having 
delineated them on two feparate papers in his original drawings, 
which are in Sir Jofeph Banks’s library, there is reafon to 8 
that he originally intended them to be diftinét fpecies. 
** Caule fimplici. 
4. Potytricnum aloides, fol. lanceolatis conniventibus obtufiuf- 
culis rigidis apice ferratis, capfula cylindrica obliquata. 
Munium fpolptrichoides var. @. Linn. Sp.Pl.1577- Dill. Mufc. 429. 
1.55. f. 7. Vaill, Par. 131. 1.29. f- it. Weifs Crypt. 173. 
P. nanum Lighif. Fl. Scot. pot. Hudf. Fl, Angi, ed, 2. 470. 
P. aloides Hedw. Stirp. Crypt. vol, t. 37..tab. 14. 
Hab. in ericetis, et locis flerilibus Anglia, &c. 
The falk of this is about a quarter of an inch high.—The /eaves 
are of a dark green colour, and prefs clofe together round the ftalk, 
efpecially in a dried ftate: they are thick, lanceolate, fomewhat 
obtufe, and finely ferrated towards their tips. —The peduncle is from 
half an inch to an inch long, of adeep ftraw-colour tinged with 
xed, and iffuing from the top of the ftalk out of a tubular serichetium 
about a tenth of an inch long.—The caf/u/e is cylindrical and a 
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