BEYUM. 185 



gins recurved; capsule nearly erect, cylindrical, sulcated; 

 lid conical. — Eng. Fl. p. 57. Mnium androgynum, Miill. 

 Syn.pt. 1.^;. 770. 



On banks and rocks, and under the shade of old trees ; 

 rare in fruit, and producing it more freely when growing 

 on shady ground. Fr. June. This rare Moss very much 

 resembles a miniature of the succeeding, a very common 

 species. Though the capsules are so rare, its stems are 

 abundantly tipped with short naked stems, supporting each 

 a little greenish ball, such as we described existing on the 

 stems of Tetraphis. These are gemmae, or buds, the male 

 flowers of Hedwig, and now known to Muscologists as 

 pseiulojjodia. Bruch and Schimper say this species always 

 grows on quartz, never on calcareous or marly soil. 



2. Bryum palustre, Sw. [Marsh Thread 3Ioss.) Stems 

 much branched; leaves lanceolate, obtuse, entire, their 

 margins revolute; capsule ovate, oblique, sulcated; lid co- 

 nical. — Ung. Fl.p. 57. Mnium palustre, 3Iull. Sj/n. pt. 1. 

 p. 169. 



Bogs, common; but it is only now and then that the 

 capsules are abundant. Fr. June. The "male flowers" 

 in this species are discoid, on elongated stalks ; pseudopodia 

 of similar character to the preceding are also found, but not 



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