CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI. 741 



The peduncle is reddilh, about half an inch or a 

 little more in height, and arifes cut of a fc.ly 

 perichictium^ at the bafe of the icaf. 



The capfule is incurved or nodding, and nearly 

 cylindrical, green at firft, reddifh brown when 

 ripe. The operculum is red, incurved and point- 

 ed. The calyptra grcenifn, lateral, and turned 

 upwards. The rim ciliated. 



denticula- HYPNUM fronde pinnata fimplici, pinnis dupli- 

 turn 3. catis, bafi pedunculifera. Sp pi. 158S. (Vail. 



Paris, t. 29./. 8. bona. Dilien mujc. t. %^.f. 5. 

 opt. Moris, hiji.f. 15. t.S.f. ^f:.) 



Double- row'd Hypnum, with crooked Hns. Anglis, 



In woods and moift Ihady places. IV. 



The leaves are from half an inch to an inch and a 

 half long, generally fimple, pinnated, nnd lying 

 flat on the ground, of a pale green colour, pel- 

 lucid and Ihining. The pinn:e are placed alter- 

 nately in a double feries, or io clofe as to lie up- 

 on one another, broad at the bale, acute at the 

 point, and recurved or falcated. 



The peduncles arife from the bafe of the leaves, 

 ere6t, an inch high, or a little more, flender and 

 reddiOi. The capfules, at their firll appearance, 

 are erc6t, and covered with a thin, upright, 

 ftraw-colour'd calyptra. Afterwards they be- 

 come incurved, and, when ripe, are again ereft. 

 The operculum is (hort, and without a point. 

 The rim of the orifice is denfely ciliated. 



HYPNUM 



