oS CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCl. 



-pakfire 3. MNIUM caiile dichotomo, foliis fubulatis. ^), 

 pi. 1574. (Moris, hijl. f. 15. /. 6. /. 9. Dill in, 

 mufc. /. 31./. 3. cpL) 



Marfli Mnium. Jugiis, 



In bogs frequent. V-VII. 



The ftalks grow ere6t, from two to four inches 

 high, bifid, and often dichototnous, covered be- 

 tween the leaves with a fufcous fpongy down. 

 The leaves are lanceolate, acute, divided by a 

 thick nerve, and are of a yellowifli green colour. 



The branches of many of the older plants are ter- 

 minated with a wide fteJlated crown of leaves, 

 in the centre of which is a clafter of minute 

 reddifh duft-like fcales. Some of thcfc ftcllatcd 

 crowns arc found proliferous, producing often 

 two or three fliort new pale ftalks> about i-4th 

 of an inch high, naked towards the top, and 

 terminated each with a minute fraly head. 



Other diftinft plants, of the fame fpccies, have 

 tawney red filaments, an inch and a half long, 

 arifing from the aLe of the branches, and bear- 

 ing each a ftriated antbera, flightly inclined. 

 The operculum is Ihort, conical and pointed. 

 The calyptrn Tubulate, the rim ciliated. 



** Stellis fenmteis foUofis, 



fontanum A. MNIUM caule fimplice genirulis inBexo. Sp.pL 

 ISIA' (Morii. hift. / J 5. /. 6./. 8. MicbeH. /. 

 59./ 4. Piuk. aim. t. 47. f. 6. BiUcn^ mujc. t. 44. 

 /. 2. ol)t. Oed' Dan. t. 298.; 



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