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fully to accord ; and we ought perhaps to unite the follow- 

 ing species with this, since we know of scarcely any cha- 

 racter of importance hut the different shape of the capsule. 

 With regard to Br. Wahlenbergii we have been induced to 

 refer it to this species from the shortness of its capsule, and 

 the exact conformity of its leaves (according to Schwae- 

 grichen's figures) to many of those in Br. ccespilicium, not- 

 withstanding that the descriptions of Mohr and of Schwae- 

 grichen himself are somewhat at variance with the above- 

 mentioned figures. Mnium lacustre also of Schwaegrichen 

 has in all its essential points the most perfect agreement 

 with our plant ; and although Mohr at first takes it up as a 

 species, he afterwards is disposed to alter his opinion in a 

 note at p, 4S3 of his Ft. Cr. Germ. Bryum erytkrocarpum 

 differs somewhat in the form of its capsule, which is by no 

 means pyriform, but its leaves exactly accord with those of 

 Br. ccespiticium. 



15. Br. turlinalum \ stems short, branched with innovations ; 

 leaves ovate, acuminated, nearly entire, the margins slightly 

 recurved, the nerve running beyond the points 3 capsule 

 elongato-pyriform, pendulous. (TAB. XXIX.) 



Bryum turbinatum. Swartz Muse. Suec. p. 49. Turn. Muse. Hib~ 

 p. 126. Engl Bot. t. 1572? Moug. et Nestl n. 222. Mnium turbina- 

 tum. Hedw. St. Cr. v. 3. t. 8. Pohlia inclinata. Schwaegr. Suppl* 

 t. 63. Bryui*i boreale. Schwaegr. Suppl. t. 69. Bryum pallens. 

 Schwaegr. Suppt. t. 72. Bryum Schleicheri. Schwaegr. Suppl. t. 73? 

 Bryum longisetum. Schwaegr. Suppl. t. 74. Webera intermedia, 

 Schiuaegr. Suppl. t. 75. Bryum pallescens. Schwaegr. Suppl. t. 75, 

 Bryum nigricans. Engl. Bot. t. 1528? Dill. Muse. t. 51. /. 74. 



HAB. In wet, sandy and stony places, chiefly in moim-* 

 tainous countries. 



We have no doubt of this being the " Bryum palnstre 

 complicatum rubens, capsulis turlinalis pendulis" of DiU 

 lenius, and this is the authority for Hed wig's Mnium tur- 

 linatum. How far it merits to be distinguished as a spe- 

 cies from Bryum ccespiticium on the one hand, or Br. ven- 

 tricosum on the other, must still remain a question. Mohr 

 inclined to think them the same, and also that Pohlia in- 

 clinata is no other than Webera intermedia, of which he 

 says, " nee forte ab insequente specie (Br. ccespiticio) se- 

 parata esset, si rite peristomium esset investigandum." In 

 another place he doubts if Bryum boreale and Br. pallens 

 are different from Br. ccespiticium ; and Schwaegrichen 

 informs us that his Br. pallescens was considered by Mohr 



