CRYPTOGAMFA MUSCI. 743 



nated, creeping, and branched. The pinna are 

 diftichous, alternate, imbricated, acutely elliptical, 

 convex on the upper fide, concave on the under, 

 pale green, tranfparent and Ihining, largefh on 

 the principal rib, Imaller on the branches, mi- 

 nute and almofl: capillary at the extremities of 

 the young branches. 

 The peduncles are about half an inch high, co- 

 pious, (lender, red, and arife either out of the 

 middle rib, or the angles of the branches. The 

 capfules are ere6V, fhort, oval, of a yellow fuf- 

 cous colour, turning red v/hen ripe. The oper- 

 culum is conical, yellow and pointed ; the calyp- 

 tra pale and incurved •, the rim has no ring, but 

 is ciliated with white hairs. 



** Surculis vagjs. 



HYPNUM furculis ramofis, frondibus fubpinna- 

 tis, foliolis punclatis. Sp.pl. 1589. {Diilen. mu/c. 

 t. 34. /. 10.) 



Large leav'd llitning Hypnum. jlnglis. 



Upon the ground by the fides of rivulets, in dark 

 fhady woods, but not common. III. IV". 



The {talks lie flat on the ground, are an- inch and 

 a half, or two inches long, either fimple or 

 nightly branched ; the branches obtufe,. and di- 

 lated at the extremity •, the leaves are large, 

 oval, pellucid, membranaceous, elegantly reti- 

 culated with dots of a whitifli green colour, and 

 laxly imbricated in a double or triple fcries. 



The 



