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yellowifh green, and in the frefli plant arc ftcl- 

 lated at the to.p, which induced Linn^us ,X.o 

 place ir ^vnong the MNIUMS, but they have 

 no granulated difc in the centre. In the dry 

 plant they are curled or frizzled. The pedun- 

 cles are more copious, the capfules fliorter and 

 more oval, of a dark fufcous colour Vihen rjne. 

 The cilia fhorr. 

 At the bafe of the peduncle is a fniall bulb, which 

 occafion'd Haller to rank this mofs with rh^ 

 HYPNUMS, but the bulb is not Icaly. ' 



Jft^ceumi^ BRYUM antheris ereclis, operculis filiformibus 

 longltudine antherarum. Budf, FL M^. p. 409. 

 W^\\}yi fetaceum. Lin- Sp.pi J 5 75. {Dillen. 

 mujc.t. ^^.f 44.; 



Pale ftar-topp'd Bryum. Anglis. 



Upon walls and rocks. III. IV. 



The ftalks are half an inch high, branched at top 

 and grow in yellowilh or pale green tufts. The 

 leaves are loofely imbricated, patent, lanceo- 

 late, acute, terminated with a fnort hair, and 

 grow in a barren liar at the top of the branches. 

 The peduncles arife from the bafe of the 

 branches, out of the lafl year's Ihoots, an inch 

 high, very nender, at firft of a pale green, at 

 laft of a fa ning tawny red colour, with a fn>all 

 bulb at their bale. The capjules are eredt, 

 flender, cylindrical, at firfl green, but dark 

 fufcous and fliining when ripe. The operculum 

 is acute, fufcous v/hen ripe, and nearly as long 



as 



