CRYPTOGAMIA MU5CI. 



1 he roots are covered with a rufty down. Some 

 of the ftalks are long, proftrate, and creeping, 

 'like runners, thinly bcfct with akcrnars oval or 

 roLindilh leaves j others are ercd and fhorter, 

 having a few Iniill leaves tov/ards the bafc, and 

 a cl Lifter of large ones at the top ; all of which 

 are of a fine green pellucid fhining colour, di- 

 vided by a red nerve, and furrounded with a car- 

 tilaginous red margin, waved on the edges, but 

 not ferrated, and, if viewed through a magni- 

 fier, the upper furface curioufly dotted or reti- 

 culated. 

 1 he filaments, or peduncle?;, arife out of the tops 

 of the lialks, often fingly, but fomctimes two, 

 three, or four together, from an inch to two 

 inches high, credt, ftrong, and of a yellowifh 

 red colour, furnifhed with an oblong red tuber- 

 cle at their bafe. The anthera^ or eapfule^ is 

 oval and pendulous ; the operculum acuminated ; 

 x.\\t: caiyptra long, fubulate and white j the young 

 capfuks erefl. 

 Some of the ftalks are terminated with a rofaceous 

 cci'yx^ conhfting of five or fix broad leaves, fur- 

 rounding a granulated fufcous difc. 

 Cf this mois there are fevcral varieties, fome of 

 which many authors confider as diftinfl fpecies. 

 The firfl has oval-lanceolate, acute leaves, ferrated 

 on the edges, and peduncles in cluftcrs. DiHen. 



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