Genus Polytrichum; with fome Emendations. 75 
and entire on their edges, with greenith middle nerves, ending in 
long filaceous tips.—The peduncle is from two to four inches long, 
of a fhining deep orange colour, and iffuing from the top of the 
{talk out of a tubular fheath about a quarter of an inch in length.— 
The cap/ule is quadrangular, with an apophy/is at the bafe, and is of 
a greenifh colour when young, but reddifh when gipe: the ofercu- 
Jum is flat or rather concave, with a fmall point projeting from the 
centre. —The exterior calypira is ferruginous, and about double the 
length of the inner one. 
yo, PoryTRIcHUM piliferum, fol. lanceolatis confertis integerrimis 
rigidis apice piliferis, capfula quadrangular, apophyfi_ fub- 
.. jecta. , 7 , 
P. commune var. y. Linn. Sp. Pl. 1573- Dill. Mufe. 426. t. 54. fr 3. 
P. piliferum Sehreb. Spicil. 74. 2. 103K- 
Habitat in ericetis, et pafeuis montofis Anglia, &c. 
This grows fingle, from half an inch to an inch and half in height, 
and is naked at the bottom, but at the top it is furnifhed with a 
crowded clufter of leaves.—The /eaves are fhort, lanceolate, thick, 
{tiff, and crowded, entire on the edges, and each tipt with a white 
hair.—The peduncle is {tiff, reddifh, and from half an inch to up- 
wards of an inch in length, arifing from the top of the ftalk out of 
a tubular perichetium.—The capjule is fmall, nodding, and quadran- 
gular, with a diftinet apophy/is at its bafe: the operculum, like the 
preceding, is concave, with a {mall mucro iffuing from the centre. 
—The exterior ca/ypira is fometimes reddifh, but generally of a dark 
ferruginous colour, and about as long again as the inner one. 
ih 2 : TI. Pory- 
