CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI. 749 



The peduncles are red, from one to two inches 

 high, and arife out of the middle nerve. The 

 capfules are oblong, inclin'd, green at firft, red 

 when ripe. The operculum fhort, conical, and 

 obtufe J the calyplra, vifiblc only upon the youno- 

 capfules, is ftraight and pale. 



We have obferved that the water, in which this 

 mofs is found to grow, has generally an encrufl- 

 ing or petrifying quality, which may be readily 

 difcovered by examining the bafeof the ftalks. 



crijia caf- HYPNUM furculis pinnatis, ramulis approxima- 

 treft/is 12. tis, apicibus recurvis. Sp.pl. 1591. (Fat/. Paris, 

 t. 27. /. 14. bona. Dillen. t. ^6. f. 20. opt.) 



Plume-crefted Hypnum. Jnfjis. 



Upon rocks, and about the roots of trees, in dry 

 woods and ftoncy foils not unfrequent, efpecially 

 in the highlands. III. 



This greatly refembles the preceding, but differs 

 from it in the following refpecfls : The ftalks are 

 much Ihortcr, and grow in wide, thick, matted, 

 intricate patches. The//«»^, or branches (efpe- 

 cially towards the top of the ftalk) are crowded 

 clofe together, and curled at the ends, like the 

 plume of the oftrich. The peduncle is not above 

 half an inch high ; the capfule is fhorter, and 

 more oval, and the eperciikim is not obtufe, but 

 furnifhed with a fhort beard or point. The cap- 

 fules are larely to be found. 



HYPNUM 



