CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI. 72^ 



{Vnil. Paris, t. 24. /. 15. bona. DWen. tnufc. L 

 45' f' 14. ^^-J 



Wall Bryum. AngliL 



Upon houf^s, walls, and rocks torhmoh, lit. 



This grows in convex tufcs, the (talks fefTiIe and 

 fimple, or very (lightly branched ; the leaves 

 are oval lanceolate, concave, terminated with a 

 white hair, and grow in a (tar-like expanded 

 clu(ter. The peduncles are about an inch high^ 

 of a tawny yellow colour ; the capfulcs are 

 ered, nearly cylindrical, green at firft, but red- 

 di(h brown when ripe. The operculum is coni- 

 nical and Tubulated j the calyptra fulcous, acute, 

 lateral, and a little incurv'd. The rim of the 

 orifice faffron-colour'd, and ciliated with lono- 

 hairs, twiftcd when dry. 

 /?. There is a variety of this, the leaves of which 

 have no hairs at the point. See Vail. Paris. /. 

 24./. 14. y tab. 25./. 4. DiUe7i. mufc. t. 45, /. 



tdpariumS BRYUM antheris eredliufculis, pedunculis aggrc- 

 gatis, foliis fecundis recurvatis, caulc declinato. 

 Sp. pL 1582. (Fail. Paris, t. 28. /. 12, bona. 

 Dillen mufc. t. 46./. 16. opt.) 

 Broom Bryum. Anglis, 

 In woods and heaths frequent. IV-VII. 

 The (talks vary from one to four inches in height, 

 are branched, and nearly creel at the bafe, but 

 bent higher up at the angles of the branches 1 

 A a a covered 



