744 CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI. 



The peduncles are about an inch high, fafFron- 

 colour'd, and arife from the aU of the leaves, 

 on various and uncertain parts of the (talks. 

 The caplules are fmali for the fize of the plant, 

 oval, more of lefs nodding, and of a blackifii 

 brown colour. The operculum is pointed ; the 

 calypra itraight, white and poi.itcd -, the rim ci- 

 liated. 



^nduhium-] HYPNUM furculis ramofis, frondibus fubpinna- 

 tis, foliolis unduktis complicatis. Sp, fl. 1589. 

 DiUent.T^e.f. II.; * 



Waved Hypnum. Anglis. 



Upon moift ground, on rocks, and in woods. IV, 



The llalks are three or four inches long, com- 

 prefs'd, fingle or lljghtly branched, gradually 

 pointed to the end, and fpread flat on the 

 ground. 



The leaves are of a whitifli green colour, lanceo- 

 late, acute, tranfvcrfely undulated, and denfcly 

 imbricated in a double or triple Icries. In their 

 aU are often found bulbous ^ems, compofed of 

 minute leaves, wrapped clofcly together, which 

 are the rudiments of future branches. 



The peduncles arc (lender, red, about two inches 

 long, and arife out of the aU of the leaves, 

 either towards the bafe or about the middle of 

 the ftalks. The capfules are oblong, green, 

 nightly incurved, and terminated with a pointed 

 cpercnlum \ when old they become more incurv'd, 

 ferruginous, and ftriated. Thp calyptra is yel- 



lowiih 



