82 Mr, Menzies’s Arrangement of the 
17. Poryrnicnum /eprentrionale, fol. lanceolatis acutis apice obfcure. 
ferrulatis, capfulis ovatis ere¢tiufculis, operculo mucronato re= 
curvato. Tas. 7. Fic. 5. 
P. ramofum Gunner. Fl. Norveg. 814. Fl. Dan. tab. 207. 
Pais prentr onale Swartz in At. Stockh. 1795 p. 270. 
Hab. in alpibus Norvegicis. 
This plant is about an inch and half i in bieidtneran and webs a {mall 
naked /fem fuddenly divides into fhort ftiff crowded branches-The 
leaves are fhort, narrow, lanceolate, acute, and entire on the edges,, 
except towards their tips, where, with the afliftance of a magnifier,. 
they may be perceived flightly ferrulated : they are all nearly of the 
fame fize, and equally difperfed round the branches.—The peduncles 
are ftiff, yellowifh, about half an inch long, arifing from. the fum- _ 
mits of the branches out of fmajl fheathy tubes, which clofely 
embrace their bafes.—-The capfule is ovate and nearly erect: the 
operculum is conical, ending in along recurved mucro.—The exte- 
rior calyptra is of a light ferruginous ROMs and. about twice the — 
length of the inner one. . 
This is to be diftinguifhed from P. a/pinum by being much fmaller 
in all its parts,—by its leaves being fhorter, more ereét, and nearly 
entire on their edges,—by its capfules being moftly ereé, and its, 
operculum ending in a long recurved. mucro. 
The fhape of the capfule in the plate above quoted. beat the 
Flora Danica is not fufficiently accurate, as it does not agree either 
with the plant of the defcription of it inferted in the fame work. 
I have therefore given a new figure of it from a f{pecimen fent me > 
fome years ago by Dr. Swartz of Stockholm, a learned and indefati- 
gable member of this Society, to whom I am indebted for this, and 
many other interefting communications. 
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