728 CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI, 



pn the highland mountains, and in woods. IX, 

 The (talks are from one to two inches high, 

 branched, and grqwing in tufts. The leaves 

 are long, narrow, lanceolate, or almoft fubu- 

 late, denfely imbricated, erecfl, or flightly in- 

 curved in the young and moid plant, but greatly 

 curled or frizzled in the old and dry ones, and 

 of a yeliowifn colour, with a mixture of dull 

 green. The peduncles anfe either from the 

 i'ummits or the fides of the upper branches, 

 either of a pale or of a reddifh yellow colour, 

 about an inch high, having a fmall bulb at the 

 bafe. The capfule is erect, oblong, and nearly 

 cylindrical ; the eperculum conical, and red at 

 the bafe, with 3, long claw-like point ; the ori- 

 fice ciliated with long, red, tv/ifted hairs ; the 

 capfules yellowifh green, and brown when ripe ; 

 the rim of the orifice is fmooth, and without 

 cilia in fuch capfules as have been long burli. 

 It varies with leaves but little curled even in the 

 dry fpecimens. 



cirra tunny 



BRY'JM antheiis erecftis, foliis (lellatis arefa6lione 

 revolutis. Iludf. Fl Ang. 409. MNIUM cirra- 

 tuni. Sp,pL 3576. (Dih.er}. niujc, t. 48. /. 42. 

 Cf? var forU^Jfe major f. 41.) 



Star-topp'd Frizzled Bryum, Anglis. 



In woods frequent. IV. 



This greatly refcnbies the preceding, but is fmaller 

 and about half an inch high. Tiie leaves are 



yellowilh 



