CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCL ']^^'j 



The ftalks are fibrous at the bafe, very long, trail- 

 ing, and branched. The branches are ere6t, 

 generally firhple, fometimes divided, long and 

 cylindrical. The leaves are of a yellow green 

 colour, fmall, triangular, carinated, acute, their 

 points flightly recurv'd, fo as to afllime a curled 

 appearance, and generally turned the fame way. 

 When dry they appear crifped and capillary. 



The peduncles are of a pale yellow colour at firft, 

 afterwards reddifli, flender, ereft, hardly an 

 inch hjgh,^arife from the fides of the branches, 

 out of a fmall fcaly -perichcetium. The capfules 

 are ereft, fmall, cylindrical, at firfi yellowiih, 

 afterwards fufcous. Tfee operculum is fhoit, co- 

 nical, and acute ; the orifice has no ring, and 

 the cilia are fo minute as to be hardly vifible 

 without a magnifier. 



In the ala of the leaves are fometimes found fmall, 

 hard, fphserical granules, or gems, v/hich, by 

 the help of a glafs, appear to be compofed of 

 minute leaves, or fcales. Thefe granules are 

 fuppofed, by Lhin<£us^ to be female frudlifica- 

 tions. 



HTPNUM ramis vagls, foliis lanceolatis com- 

 pllcato-carinatis quinquefariam recur vatis. Syji. 

 nat. edit. 13. 'pag. 800. Sp. pi. 1593. {Dillen. 

 mufc. i. 39./. 38. varietas maja\ ^ t, 59./. ^g, 

 varietas miner. Vail. Paris- t. 27./. 5. bona. Oed. 

 Dan. t. sZS'f' ^^ opt.) 



Reflex'd-leav'd Hypnum. Anglis, 



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