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Genus, Relytrictoum,;, with fome Emendations. St 
calypira i is,of a fraruginous:saleure and, about twice e the length of the 
Inner Ones); oly- 
This is in Sir Toleph Banks's , Herbarium, and was firft brought 
from the. north-weft coaft of America by Mr. Nelfon, who accom~ 
“panied Captain Cook in “his laft voyage. “I have fince frequently 
met with it myfelf in the pine-forefts on the fame coatt ; but it has 
not been found, to my pwsiieigle any where elfe. is 
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6 Sopstievubietctta ‘urnigerum, fol: lanceolatis sstiehinbitis denticulato- 
» ferratis rigidis, capfulis cylindricis erectis. 
eo urnigerun Linn, &. Pl, 1 oes Dill. Mufe. 427. h 55° J+ 5« 
© Habitat i in ericetis montofis Anglia, &c, 
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“This ¢ grows from an inch to three abide in height ; ‘the lower part 
‘of the fealk is naked, but the upper part is crowded with leaves, 
and generally divided into numerous branches.—The éaves are 
Janceolate, fharp-pointed, rigid, and irregularly ferrated with acute 
dents.—The peduncles a‘é about an inch or an inch and half long, 
and arife pretty copioufly from the fummits of the lower branches, 
and not from the aziz of the leaves, as they have been generally 
deferibed: the vaginal perichetium, which ‘clofely furrounds the bafe 
of each, is about an eighth of an inch in length.—The capfule is cylin- 
drical and ereét, having the rim wide, and fringed with minute dents. 
The operculum i 18 flat, With a {mall point in the. centre, and covers the 
rim ‘with a thick obtufe edge-—The exterior calypira is {mall and 
fubulate, of a light ferruginous colour iat the top, but whitith’ to- 
Wards ‘the hea and i is rather n more Ais) 9 twice ae ee of the 
infer one. bes’ oxi ‘ 
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