722 CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI. 



covered with a fufcous down about the lower 

 parr, and generally grow in large tufts ; the 

 leaves are linear and acute, one third of an inch 

 long, recurv'd or falcated, lean all on one fide 

 of the llalk, and are of a yellowjfh colour. 

 The peduncles are one or two inches high, ftrong, 

 and of a ycllowifh colour, arifing near the bafc 

 of the new branches, generally fingle, but 

 fometimes two, three, or four from the fame 

 point. The capfules are cylindrical, a little in- 

 curved, and ftriated. The operculum is furnifh'd 

 with a red teard or point, almoft as long as the 

 capfule. '1 he calyptra is long, pale, and fal- 

 cated. 

 At the bottom of the peduncle is a bulb or Psri- 

 chatium, fcaly or foliaceous at the bale; which 

 determined Haller, Scopoii^ PVeis^ &c. to place 

 this mofs amongft the Hypnum, but as this bulb 

 in the upper part is naked and without fcales, 

 Linn^us has thought fit to retam it amongft the 

 Bryums •, lb nearly are the two genera allied. 



undutatim BRYUM anrheris erediufculis, pedunculis fubfo- 



q. litariis, foliis lanceolaris carinatis undulatis pa- 



tentibus ferratis. Sp. pi. 15H2. (Vail. Paris. /. 



26./. I -J. folia male ^ CapluU bene. Dilleii. t. ^6. 



f. i\!>.bene. Ocd. t. 477- <^P-) 



Cyrled Bryum. JngUs, 



In fliady places, and in woods about the roots of 

 trees frequent. XII-I. 



The 



