188 HISTORY OF BRITISH MOSSES. 



of Europe. Berg also gathered specimens at the Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



7. Bryum JULACEUM, Schrad. [Slender-hraneJied Thread 

 Moss.) Stems branched; leaves closely imbricated, broadly 

 ovate, concave, entire, obtuse ; nerve reaching nearly to the 

 point; capsule ovato-cylindraceous, pendulous. — Eng. Fl. 

 p. 58. B. argenteum, var. majus, Milll. Syn. j^t. l.p. 314. 



On sandy and micaceous soils, near streams and waterfalls, 

 in alpine districts. Fr. November. This is a beautiful 

 species, with silvery green foliage, resembhng much in ap- 

 pearance the common £. argenteum, of which, by many 

 Continental Botanists, since the time of Linnaeus, it has 

 been regarded as a variety. 



Mr. Spruce has found at " Caldron Spout,^^ in Teesdale, 

 and on the Pyrenees, a Moss nearly allied to this, which he 

 has described as a distinct species — B. concinnainm — in 

 the 'Annals of Natural History' for 1849; its fruit how- 

 ever is unknown: see also Miill. Syn.pt. ^^. p. 575. 



8. Bryum crudum, Huds. {Transparent Green Thread 

 Moss.) Stems simple; leaves rigid, lanceolate, erect, the 

 upper ones narrowest and longest, all of them plane, ser- 

 rulate, the nerve disappearing below the summit; capsule 

 oblongo-subpyriform, ceruuous. — Eng. Fl. p. 58. 



