CRYPTOGAM^^ MUSCI. 719 



vlded by a nerve, and collefled into a (larry 

 duller at the top of the ftalk, from the centre 

 of which arifes a yellow peduncle, half an inch 

 high, bearing a fhort green cylindrical capfule, 

 with a long-pointed operculum, totally covered 

 v.'ith a very remarkable large, ftraw-colour'd, 

 cred, tranfparent, membranaceous cahptra, near/' 

 /r/a cylindrical figure, but pointed at the top, and 

 hanging loofely overy'>lov.'er than the capfule, 

 like an extinguifhcr upon a candle, and ciliated 

 at the bafe. 

 j3. There is a large variety of this, with branched 

 ftalks, an inch high, covered with ruifv down 

 at the bafe, but in other refpeds fimilar. Diikn. 

 /. 4i,./. 9. 



fuiulatum^ BRYUM antheris ereclis fubulatis, furculis acau- 

 libus. Sp.pl. 1581. fVail. Paris, t. IS- f- 8- bona. 

 DUkn. mufc, t. 45- f- 10. opt.) 



Subulated Bryum. Angiis. 



Jn fhady woods, and in damp hollow glens, and 

 fifllires of rocks, but not common. III. 



The leaves are lanceolate, acuminated, and ex- 

 panded, and grow in a ilar-like and almoft ^ti- 

 file clufter \ from the centre of which arifes a 

 firm yellowifh peduncle, about an inch high, 

 bearing a remarkably long, curv'd, cylindrical, 

 fubulatcd capfule, of a yellowifli green colour, 

 covered with a fharp-pointed yellow calyptra^ 

 adhering clofe to the capfule. The operculum is 

 long, conical, and furrounded with an orano-e- 



colour'd 



