7»8 CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI. 



p:/riforme^ BRYUM antheris crecflis obovatis, calyptra fubu- 

 lata, furculis acaulibus, foliis ovatis muticis. 

 Sp. pi. 1580, (Moris, hijl.f 15. /. 7. / 16. Vail 

 Varis. t. ig.f. 3. Dillen. mujc t, 44. /. 6. op, 

 Oed. Dan. t. sil-f^ i.) 



Pear headed Bryum* JngUs. 



On b*nks and chyey pjils, but not common. III. 



The leaves are oval-lanceolate, and grow fedile 

 upon the ground, in a rore-likc duller, of a 

 pale green colour. The peduncle arifes from 

 fhe centre of the leaves, of the fame colour, 

 hardly half an inch high, bearing a thick, ered, 

 inverted^ conical, or pear-fliap'd capfule, of a 

 pale green at firll, but tawny when ripe. The 

 operculum is fhort, conical, and obtufe •, the rim 

 of the orifice without cHia ; the calyptra at firfl 

 is eredl and quadrangular, but as the capfule 

 fwells, it burlls at the bafe, and becomes la- 

 teral. 



txtinSlori- BRYUM anthera ere(5la oblonga minori, calyptris 

 urn 4. laxis sequalibus. Sp-pK 1581. (Va'iL Paris, t. 26, 



f. I. bona. Dillen. mufc. t. 45. /. 8. ^ var. caule 

 ramofojig. 9. opt.^ 

 Extinguilher Bryum. AngHs, 

 Upon rocks not unfrequcnt, as in Edinburgh parkf ,j 



&c. I. II. 

 The ftalks are fingle and very Ihort, hardly half an 

 inch high-, the leaves are ovaManceohte, di- 

 vided 



