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more pellucid •, the capfules longer, and later i 

 their appearance J the operculum move zcuic» 



Limio'us^ in \\\s Fl. Suec. and 13th edition of thj 

 Syji. nai. has rank'd this amongft the MNIUMJ I 

 but we have ne^er yet feen the granulated dif( 

 of the female frudlifications, nor does Dillenh 

 mention them, and therefore we judged it moi 

 eafy for the fludent to retain this mofs amon 

 the Bryums, efpecially as it is fo nearly relate 

 to the preceding, which is received as a Bryu 

 by Linnaus himfelf. 



Halier and IVeis have placed it with the Hyfnun 

 as having a perichttium at the bafe of the p 

 duncle. v; 



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alplnum 29 BRYUM anthera oblonga pendula, foliis ovar 

 acuminatis carinaiis, lurculis ramofis^axillis pi 

 dunculifcris. Syft- nai. edit. 13 />• 799. HudfA 

 angl p. 4«5. (Dilien. mufc t. 50./. 64.) 



Red alpine Bryum. Anglis, 



Upon the highland mountains, on rocks cover 

 with little earth, as on BenLomojid, &c. V. 



The ilalks are an inch and a half high, irreguk 

 divided into longer and fiiorter branches, a 

 grow together in tufts of a Ihining dark red 1 

 lour, which diilinguifnes this moCs at firfl; figi 

 The leaves are very numerroiis, lanceolate, c; 

 nated, and grov/ all round the branches •, iligl 

 patent in the moift plant, hex erei5t and do: 

 prclled to t!ic (talk in the dry, fo as to mf 

 that and the branches appear cylindrical, ^f 



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