CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCL 757 



fn woods about the roots of trees, and in moift 



paftiires. XIMII. 

 The root is an horizontal fibre, cofve^S with fer- 

 ruginous down ; from which arifes a perpendi- 

 cular naked Hem, two or three inclies high, ter- 

 minated with a clufter of cylindrical, and, for 

 the mofl part, fimple, fmooth, pointed, and 

 nearly ere6l branches, which gives this mofs the 

 appearance of a tree in miniature. 

 The leaves are oval-lanceolate, acute, upright, 

 flat, denfely and clofely imbricated, and of a 

 yellowifh green fliining colour. 

 The ftem above-mentioned is of a dark red co- 

 lour, imbricated with brown faded fcales ; and 

 by the fides of it, arifing from the fame root, 

 are often to be feen young, perpendicular fpikes 

 or fhoots, which are the rudiments of future 

 flalks and branches, and which, in procefs of 

 time, expand themfelve^. 

 The peduncles are rarely to be found, but, whert- 

 they are, they arifc copioufly from the bafe of 

 the branches, about an inch high, ered, and 

 of a red colour, bearing oblong, ered, llender 

 red capfules, having each a fhort, conical oper- 

 culum, terminated with a point or beard. The 

 calyptra is ftraw^-colour'd ; the rim ciliated. 



Glopuurum HYPNUM furculo eredo, ramis fafciculatis ter- 

 I 22. minalibus fubdivifis, antheris fubnutantibus. 



! '- Sp. pi. 1594. (Moris, hiji.f. 15. /. 5./ 3©. Vail, 



Paris, f, 23./. 5, Dillen. tnujc /. 41./. 49. opt ) 



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