CRYPTOGAMA MUSCI. 733 



It varies with leaves of a darker green colour, 

 tipped either with longer or fhorter hairs, and 

 fometimes has no hairs at all. It is found alfo 

 with wider leaves, recurved at the point, and 

 more or lefs denfely imbricated, whence the va- 

 riety of figures given by Dillenius. 



BRYUM antheris erectis, pedunculis ficcltate con- 



tortis, foliis plliferis, furculis^faftigiatis. Hudf. 

 Fl. Jng. p. 411. var, (3. ied an B. verticillatum 

 Lin.Sp.pL 1585. dubium eft. CDillen. mufc. /. 

 47./. 34. plant a nojlra bene refpondet.) 



Green-pointed Bryum. AngUs. 



On the fides of the highland mountains in Brea- 

 dalbane^ on Ben-Lomond, &c. X-V. 



The ftalks grow in tufts, are an inch high, ere6l, 

 flenderj divided into two or three, and fome- 

 times half a dozen upright branches pointed at 

 top, and generally turned a little to one fide. 

 Ttie leaves every where furround the ftalk, are 

 very numerous, narrow, and feraccous, termi- 

 nating in a fine fiendcr point, without a hair. 

 They often incline a little to one fide of the 

 ftalk. Thofe at the fummits of the branches 

 are of a deep green colour. The inferior part 

 of the ftalks, and all the lower leaves are ful- 

 cous. 



The peduncles are redd ifti, very ftiort, being not 

 above a line or two higher than the top of the 

 plant, and arife generally out of the fummits of 

 the inferior branches. The capfule is ereft, 



ihorr, 



