;6o CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCL 



from it on the other two. The nerve, or ecu- 

 tral rib is of a red colour •, the fruflifications 

 like the preceding. See Fail. Paris, t. 29,/. ic. 

 y DHlen. mufc. t. 40. /. 47. Ualhr makes this 

 a diftind fpecies, and IVeis a variety of H. cuf- 

 pdaium. Lin. 



fclpariiiffi 24. HYPNUM furculis terctibus ramofis, foliis acutis 

 patulis diltantibus. Sp. ^l. 1595. (DiUe7i. muf(^ 

 /. 40./. 44.) 



Water Hypnum. Mglis. 



Upon the banks of rivers, and upon planks an4 

 ftones about water-mills. III. IV. 



The (lulks are from three to fix inches long, 

 fibrous at the bafe, laxly branched, and without 

 order. The branches are long and cylindrical, 

 if growing out of the water, but pinnated if 

 floating under it. The leaves on the cylindri- 

 cal branches are oval, acute, and denfely im- 

 bricated J on the pinnated ones, under the water, 

 lanceolate, more acute, patent, and terminated 

 with a iliarp hair- like poin^. Their colour is a 

 dark lliining gr^en. 



The peduncles are ihort in proportion to the length 

 of the mofs, being about ai;i inch high, ered, 

 and of a fhining red colour. The capfules are 

 oval, tumid, inclin'd, at firfl of a ^lark reddifh 

 brown colour, afterwards of a dull green. The 

 eperculum is conical, with a ihort point ; the ca- 

 iyptra, and young capfules, are cred j the rin> 

 ciliated j the fruftifications are produced under 



the 



