80 Mr, Menztes’s Arrangement of the 
are from an inch te an inch and half in length: ‘they are reddifh, 
flightly twifted, and generally terminate the lower branches, each arif- 
ing out of a cylindrical tube, about two tenths of an inch long.—The 
cap/ule is fomewhat erect, and nearly cylindrical, having a ftrong 
annulated rim, fringed with a regular row of reddifh dents: the 
operculum is long and fabulate.-—The exterior woolly calyptra is fer= 
ruginous, and about double the length of the inner one. 
The only plant which this refembles is P: aloides, and I ftrongly _ 
fufpect that they have been hitherto confounded together, both by 
Hudfon and Lightfoot, under the name of P. wanum. It is un- 
doubtedly a very diftinét fpecies from P. alsides of Hedwig, not only 
by its being larger in all its parts, and generally branched, but alfo 
by its leaves being ferrated their whole length, and dentated on 
their back along the courfe of the middle nerve. 
1s; PoryrricuuM dentatum, fol. lanceolatis acutis aculeato-dentatis, 
capfulis fubcylindricis ere&tis. Tas. 7. Fic. 4. 
Hab. in ora occidentali Americe Septentrionalis. 
It is from an inch to two inches high, and generally divided into 
three or four flender branches.—The /eaves are ftiff, lanceolate, 
acute, and ftrongly dentated on the edges with fharp whitifh dents ; 
their colour is a dark green wha recent, but a reddifhybrown when _ 
dried; the middle nerve is elevated on the back of the leaf, and 
marked with a few dents near the tip. —The feduneles are generally. 
two or three in number, of a dark reddifh colour, and) grow to an 
inch or an inch and half long: they arife from the fummits of the 
branches out of cylindrical tubes which furround about two tenths 
of an inch of the bafe of each.—The cap/ule is fomewhat cylindrical 
and erect; the rim is {trong and fringed with minute dents: the 
operculum is flat, with a fmall point in the centre.—The exterior 
calyptra 
