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curved, comprefTed at their bafe, and enfolding 

 the middle rib, fet neareft together at the top 

 of the leaf, of a green but not fhining colour. 



The peduncle is reddifh, about the fame length as 

 the leaf, and arifes from between the uppermoft 

 pinna^ at the extremity of the middle rib, and 

 nearly at right angles with it. 



The capfulc is eredl, nearly oval, green at firll, 

 but of a reddifh brown when ripe. The oper- 

 cuium is red, with an erect point in the centre. 

 The calyptra is very thin, Ibort, conical, and of 

 a pale green colour. The rim of the orifice is 

 ciliated with reddifh hairs. 



The perich^tium, at the bafe of the peduncle, is a 

 flight convex fwelling, fcarccly vifible. 



taidfoUumi HYPNUM fronde fimpliciflla pinnata lanceolata, 

 bafi pedunculifcra. Sp. pi. 1587. {FaiL Paris, t. 

 24./. 1 1, opt. Billen. mufc. i. 34./. 2. bona. Oed, 

 Dan.t. 4ji.f. 2.) 



Yew-leav*d H\pnum. JngUs. 



In woods and Ihady places. III. IV. 



This alfo confifls of a plain, fimple, pinnated leaf, 

 like the preceding, many ariung from the fime 

 bafe, but is larger, being about half an inch 

 f high. T\\Q pinna are lanc^ate. commonly about 



twelve pair, but often more in the old plants, 

 divided by a middle nerve, and largeft at the 

 top of the leaf. 



The 



