CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI. 7JJ9 



pointed fummits. The leaves are greenifh in 

 the young plants with a flight tinge of red, but 

 at the top of the old branches of a fhining dark 

 red colour. The ftalks at the bafe are fufcous. 



The peduncles are rerj^n inch high, and arife out 

 o^ the angles of the branches from the old 

 Ihoots, having a red bulb or penchcetium at their 

 bafe. The capfules are oblong, pendulous, ob- 

 tufe, green when young, reddifh when ripe. 

 The caiyptra is reddifh, the operculum has a Ihort 

 obtufe point, dnd the ring is cihlated. 



Obf. 7 he tops of the branches in the dry plants 

 are very like thofe of the common Hypnumferi- 

 ceuniy except in colour. 



HYPNUM. Gen.pl 1195. 



Anther a, operculata. Caiyptra Isevis, 

 tilatnentum laterale ortum c perichsetio. 



* Frondihus pinndtis, 



hyoides i. HYPNUM fronde fimplicimna pinnata lanceola- 

 ta, apice pedunculifera. Sp. pL 1^88. {Vail. Pa* 

 ^ ris. t. 24. /. 13. hona^ fj non optima. DilleH. /. 34. 



/. I. hna. Oed. Dan. t. A^y^.f.i.) 

 Little pinnated Hypnum. Anglis, 

 In woods and fliady places. II-IV, 

 This is the Icaft of all the Briti/h Hyphums. It 

 confifls of a fingle pinnated leaf, about a quar- 

 ter of an inch long, fcveral growing together, a 

 little reclining. The j^)/««^ are alternate, gene- 

 rally feven or eight pair, lanceolate, flightly 

 ^^h z curved, 



