84 Mr. Menzies’s Arrangement of the Genus Polytrichum, 8c: 
inch and half to two inches long, and arife from the fummits of the- 
branches out of fheathy tubes, which are about two eighths of an 
inch in length; they are fhining, and of a deep ftraw-colour at 
their tops, but reddifh towards their bafes.—The cap/ule is oblong, 
a little inclined and fomewhat incurved, and narrower towards the 
rim, where it is fringed with a ‘regularrow’ of minute whitifh dents, to» 
the number of about fixty-four. ‘The operculum is flat, with a feta- 
ceous point iffuing from the centre. —The exterior wodlly calyprra is- 
pointed, of a light ferruginous colour, and about a third part longer: 
pe the i inner one, whith is of the fame Pa but nial 
In reference to Tas. VI.and VII. it is to be obferved, that adjoin= 
ing to almoft every figure, the exterior calypira is laid open to fhow 
the inner one.—The tubular serichetium that furrounds the bafe of, 
the peduncle is reprefented both in its natural fize and enlarged.— 
A leaf of each is magnified to fhow its figure, and the capfiule i is ex= 
hibited either in its natural fize or magnified, in order to give a more. 
accurate idea ah its nea 
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