11^ CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI. 



obtufe capfules, of a bUckifli brown coIoUf 

 with a wide orifice. 



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hypmides BRYUM antheris eredis, caiile ereaiiifciilo, ra. 

 mis lateralibus brevibus fertilibus. ^p./pl 1584 

 (Moris^ hifi.f. 15. t. s.f, 7. HaHer. hijl. n. 178c 

 /. 46./. 4. Dillen, mufc. t. ^y.f. 32. ^ ejus va- 

 rietates f, 31, 27, 28, 29, 30. Cs>^ /. 46. /. 26. 

 0^^. Dan. i. 47^.) 

 Hoary alpine Brynm. Jriglis. 

 Upon the movintains and rocks in the hifrhlands 



and lowlands abundar-tly. X. 

 The (talks are nearly ereft, varying from one to 

 fix inches high, and grow often in large tufts, 

 or cufhions. They are fometimes fingle, but 

 are ufually divided into a few large branches, 

 which (hoot out many (horr, alternate, fmaller 

 qnes from their fides, which arc thickefl: at the 

 ends. The leaves are narrow, lanceolate, acute, 

 terminated with a long white hair, and every- 

 where furround the ftalks ; the older ones fuf- 

 cous, the young ones of a yellowilh green co- 

 lour, growing in a thick clufter at the extremi- 

 ties of the branches, and often ilighdy bending 

 to one fide. 

 The peduncles are erecV, yellowidi, about a quar- i 

 ter of an inch long, and arifc out of a pale ! 

 conic perichatium^ or bulb, near the extremities 

 of the lelTer lateral branches. The capfules are 

 ere6l, oval, and brownidi. The operculum red, 

 with a long point. The orifice ciliated ; in 

 fome fpecimens with long red hair. 



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