CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCl. 691 



The young branches are of a blue-green or glau- 

 cous colour, rather proftrate than erecl ; the 

 old ones are eredl, and turn yellow in decay. 



SPHAGNUM. Gen.pl 11 87. 

 Anthera operculata, ore l^vi. Calyptra nulla. 

 SPHAGNUM ramis deflexis. Sp. pL 1569. {Fail. 

 Paris. /. 23./. 3. Dilien. t. 32. /. i. Oed. Dan. 

 t. 474.; 



Bog-mofs. Anglii, 



In bogs abundantly. %. VTI. VIII. 



It grows together in wide patches, fo as frequently 

 to cover a large portion of the bogs. The 

 llalks are found from two inches to two ittt 

 long, irregularly furrounded with numerous, co- 

 nical, pendent branches, and terminated with a 

 rofaceoLis duller of fhort ered ones. The (talk 

 and branches are every where imbricated with 

 oval, brittle, pellucid, ilightly concave leaves, 

 the lower ones faded, the upper ones white, yel- 

 towifh green, and fometimes red. The cap- 

 fules are oval, or almoft round, ercd, fufcous, 

 fmooth, and grow out of the ala of the dull 

 ters, at the tops of the branches, fupported on 

 fhort peduncles. At the bafe of the capfule is 

 an annular fwelling, which is a kind of recep- 

 tacle called by Linnaus znApopbyJis. The Opet' 

 cultim, or lid of the capfule is convex, with a 

 fhort point in the centre. The rim of the cap- 

 fule has no beard or cilia^ but is quite fmocth. 

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