?C2 CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI. 



trkhoidcs. LiTj. Sp. pL i^l^- POLYTRI- 

 CHUM fuhrotundum. var. |S. Hudf. FL ^ng. 400. 

 (Vail Far is. t. 2<^. f. 1 1- Bilkn. t. S5- /• 7- ^/^O 

 Dwarf Polytr'ichum. ^ngHsi 

 In damp heathy places. XII-II. 

 Ihe ftaiks are from a quarter to half an inch high. 

 Tingle, or rarely branched. 1 he leaves are 

 linear and obtufe, thick and rigid, finely fer- 

 rated on the margins, and of a dark green co- 

 lour. The filament is reddiih, and about an 

 inch high ; the antbera nearly cylindrical, and 

 without an npophy/is -^ the powder green; the 

 /•<7/yp/r^ double, one within the other; the in- 

 ttrior one fmoorh ; the exterior fhort, wide and 

 conical, compofed of hairs only of a pale yel- 

 low, or whirifh colour. 

 The female plants produce rofaceous or flarrj 



cups. 

 There is a variety of this with fefllle or fcarcely 

 any (talks, with leaves quite entire, and anthera 

 cf capfules fhorter, and confequenily rounder. 

 This is the ^. Jubrotuiuhm oiHudfoiCs FL Ang. 

 p. 400. Vaii Paris, t. 26. /. 15. Moris, hift.f, 

 15- ^- 7- /• 7- A//<?«. miifc. t. 55./. 6. opi.) 

 We chole to pl;ce this mofs here rather than 

 amongft the MNTA, becaufe the hairy cahftra 

 is a more obvious charafter, efpecially to ^ 

 Tyro in ihe kience, than the want of an apo* 

 fhyfis. ' 



POLYTRICHUM 



