CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI. 707 



At the roots of trees in moid fandy woods in Scot- 

 land, but often on dry (hady banks by the fides 

 of heaths in England. III. IV. 

 The flalks grow ered, and crowded together, an 

 inch, and fometimes two inches^ high ; often 

 lingle, but generally branch'd. The leaves are 

 thick fet, of a fhort, narrow, lanceolate forrri, 

 but not acute, of a yellowifh green colour, with 

 a thick green nerve in the middle of each, pa- 

 tent when mo. ft, but curled and prefs'd to the 

 flalk when dry. 



At the fummits of the branches are naked green 

 peduncles, from i-8th to i-4th of an inch long, 

 terminated each with a dark green minute pul- 

 verulent head, which, when magnified, ^appears 

 granulated, and refembles the globular head or 

 germina in the flower of a ranunculus. Thefe are 

 the fuppofed female frudifications. 



t'rom the tops of Ibme of the branches of the fame 

 individual ftalks which produce the above pul- 

 verulent heads, arile fometimes, but very rarely 

 (according to Billenius) ered peduncles, longer 

 than thofe of the preceding, and terminated with 

 oblong anthers, at firft ere6t, fmooth and green, 

 afterwards reddifh, ftriated, and a little inclin'd ; 

 covered with a Calyptra, tawny at the top, and 

 white towards the bafe. The Operculum is coni- 

 cal J the rim ciliated. 



Thefe anthers we have never yet been able to dif- 

 cover. 



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