84 BUXBAUMIA. 



fuscae, exilibus ciliis coronatae, setis e calyce vix prominulis, 

 per vaginam tamen seu calycein ad basin usque pertingen- 

 tibus." 



Dillenius compares his fine specimens to Hedwigia aqua- 

 tica. Ours have more the slender habit of Hypmimjlui- 

 tans ; but the leaves are still longer and narrower. 



29. BUXBAUMIA. 



GEN. CHAR. Capsule oblique, gibbous ; Peristome 

 double ; the exterior of numerous, filiform, joint- 

 less processes ; the interior a plicate, membranous 

 cone ; Calyptra mitriform. (TAB. III.) 



The only species of this genus has truly a double peristotne 

 but its exterior is totally different from that of any other moss 

 The processes are slightly torulose but not jointed, of a reddisl 

 brown, and of so peculiar a nature that they do not absorb wa- 

 ter even when immersed in it for a considerable length of time 

 For a full history of this genus we must refer our readers to th( 

 sixth Number of the New Series of the Flora Londine?isis. 



B. ophylla. (TAB. XXII.) 



B. aphylla. Linn. Sp. Pip. 1570. Engl. Bot. t. 1596. Hook, in Fl 

 Lond. ed. 2. (with a figure.) Moug. et Nestl. n. 33. Dill Muse. t. 

 /. 5. 



HAB. In a fir-wood at Sprowston, near Norwich. Nea 

 Rosslyn. Mr. E. Maughan. Wood near Aberdeen. Mr 

 Jackson. 



This most singular of mosses can scarcely be said to hav 

 any stems. The fruitstalks, which are about an inch high 

 red, and rough with tubercles, arise from a small rough bull 

 or perichaetium, which strikes immediately into the earth it 

 brown entangled roots. Upon the summit of the fruitstalk 

 between it and the capsule, is a short cylindrical apophysis 

 much narrower than the capsule, and somewhat wider thar 

 the fruitstalk. Capsule large, ovate, oblique, flattish above, 

 below Qonvex, at the base gibbous ; the mouth has an ele 

 vated rim or margin, which is irregularly cleft. The whoh 



