^^ CRYPTOGAM! A MUSCI. 



point; the calypira is long, with a reddi(h tip 5 

 the rirn^ ciliated with pale dents. 



'.drum HYPNUiyr ramis vagis recurvis, foliis ovatis re- 

 curvatis" patul s. Sp. pi. 1589. {Vail. Paris, /. 

 2«./. 9. Dilien mujc. /. 38-/. 2\i.) 



Great pale, triangular Hypnum. Jnglis. 



In woods, about the roots of trees, and in barren 

 grounds abundantly; X-XII. 



The ftalks vary from four to eight or nine inches 

 high, nearly ereft, UifFand elafdc, of a red co- 

 lour, irregularly branched ; the branches hori- 

 zontal, deflex'd, and taper at their ends. 



The leaves are broad, triangular, acute, pellucid, 

 (lightly ftreak'd, and fo open and expanded 

 that the red nerve of the Halk is diftindlly feen 

 between them. When young or frclh they are 

 of a pale green ; when dry, of a yeliowifh white 

 colour; largcfl on the principal ftalk, efpecially 

 at the top i fmalleft on the branches. 



The peduncles are one or two inches high, of a 

 bright red fhining colour, and arife generally 

 near the angles of the branches, out of a fcaly, 

 oblong, rcddifh perichatium. 



The capfules at firfl are llender, and (lightly lean- 

 ing, covered with a bending calypira ; after- 

 wards they fwell, become cylindrical, reddifli, 

 curv*d and nodding, and at lad are fufcous and 

 ftriated. The operculum is very fhort, obtufc 



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