756 CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI. 



In moift paftures frequent, VII. 



The ftalks are four or five inciies long, or more, 

 reclining if fingle, ered if 'tufts, irregularly di- 

 vided into a few ftraggling branches. The nerve 

 is firm, red, and vifible between the leaves. 

 The leaves are oval -lanceolate, fharp-pointed, [ 

 pellucid, carinated, generally difpofed in five fe- ' 

 ries around the nerve, aod all reflex'd, fo that . 

 the ftalk appears angular. Their colour is 

 ufually a pale or yellowifh green. 



The peduncles are red, an inch or an inch and a ; 

 half high, having a fcaly cylindrical perich(E- \ 

 tium at their bafe. The capfulcs arc nearly oval, ; 

 reddiPa brown, and nodding* The operculuin is ■ 

 fhort, conical, and obtufe. The calyptra is pale, | 

 conical and pointed, erc(5t on the young cap- 

 fules, deflexed on thole more advanced. The ■ 

 rmi of the orifice is lurrounded w.th a flender 

 ring, and ciliated with yellow hairs. The cap- ' 

 / fules are rarely produced. 



(3, The fmaller variety has lefier leaves, more thickly^ 

 fet, and more reflex'd. 



**••*** SurciiUs dendroidihi'.s jcu fafcictilatis. ' 



Uendroidi's HYPNUM furculo eredo, ramis falciculatis ter- 

 '^'^* minalibus fimpliciufculis, antheris eredis. Sp. 



pi. 1593. (Mcrif. hiji, f. 15. /. 5. /. 31. VaiL ; 

 Paris, t. 26./. 6. n^n hem. Billcn. mufi. /. 40. . 

 /. 48. J. fi, opt,) \ 



Tree-like Ilypnym. An^Us, 



In ; 



