20 CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI. 



coloiir'd ring at the bale, when the capfule is 

 ripe. 



rcJe 6. BRIUM antheris crcfliufculisj foliis piliferis re- ; 



cuYvis. Sp. pL 1581. (V ail. Paris, t. '^s-f- 3- ^e- i 



r.a, Dillen.mufc. t. ^S-f- i-O 

 Hoary rullic Bryum. Ajt^Hs. \ 



On the North or Weft fide of thatch'd cottages • 



frsquent, and fometimes on wails and trunks of ! 



trees. III. IV. 



The ftalks grow in tufts or patches^ erect, branch'dl 

 and two inches high ; the leaves are broad, Ian- j 

 ceolate, acute, and terminated with a white hair i ; 

 when frefli and moid, they arc of a yellowifh j 

 srvten colour, expanded and recurved at the 

 points ; bift, when dry, they are contracted^ 

 and of a fufcous green colour^ The peduncles 

 are of a pale red, about an inch high, and arife , 

 e'lther out of ..he fummits of the young bran- ' 

 ches, or a little below cut of tlie one-year-old . 

 cnes, having a green naked conic bulb at theif- ' 

 bafe. The capfuies are erecl, cylindrical, and: 

 of a rcddiili brown colour. The operculum isi 

 long, conicrJ, and a liitle incurved. The ca- ' 

 iyptra tawny, and ere«5l at firfl, afterwards in-, 

 curved and tufcous. The rim of the orifice has 

 lonrj; cilia. 



o 



muraU ". BRYUM antlieris ercclis, foliis piliferis Tf^liufcu- 

 ^* lis, fiirculis fir- plicibus coefpitofis. 5;). /)/. 1581, 



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