;<?» CRYPTOGAiMIA MUSCI. 



titute both of filaments and capiules, but arc 

 tjfrminsted with a kind of rofaceous cup, either 

 of a bright red or yellow ifli colour, compofed 

 of leaves of different fizes, the outermoft broad, 

 the innermoft lanceolate, growing gradually 

 more and more fine and flender to the centre. 

 This cup is Ipok'd upon by Linn^us as the female 

 flower of this mofs, but Haller is of opinion 

 that it is only the gem or origin of a new flalk, 

 which frequently rifes from its centre, and this 

 again becomes fometimfs proliferous, 



whvds Q, There are two varieties of this mofs : the firft has 

 much fhorter ftalks than the precedijig, and often 

 branched; the leaves ftiffer, ered, and more 

 crouded, in other refpedts the fame. FailL Paris, 

 t. 23./. 6. £5? 7. Moris, hiji.f. 15. /. 7. Jig. 6. 

 i^ 8. Dii^en. mufC' t. s^^-f- '^^ °P^' Oed. Ban, t- 

 2950 

 The leficr Polytrichum. Jnglis. 



ijikfum v, ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^ ^^'^ fcarcely more than half an 

 inch high, terminated with a clufler of linear, 

 cred, rigid leaves, for the moft part entire on 

 the edges, and tipp'd each with a white hair. 

 The filament is about an inch high, and the 

 capfule quadrangular. The female flower, or 

 gem, is of a bright red colour. Haller makes 

 this a diilina fpecies. DilUn. mujc, /. 54./, 3. 

 Small hairy Polytrichum, Juglis. 



The 



