OF TREES AND PLANTS. i8j 



the rocks under the fame wall by Ov^-lake, towards the wed 

 end, where it is frequently fix or feven inches high. The 

 root confifls of fmall capillary fibres, from which rife one, and 

 fometimes two or three ftalks, with branches in a dichotomous 

 manner, firft two, then other two, and fometimes two more, 

 according to its age and ftrength. The folioles are oblong, nar- 

 row and pointed, a little convex on one fide, and concave on the 

 other, more clofe and thick fet upwards than at the bottom of 

 the ftalks and branches, efpccially at the ends. The young 

 plants are green ; the older ones ycllowiih. The fructifications 

 are in the rt/^of the folioles in yellow reniformcapfules, like a yel- 

 low powder, perfected in Auguft and September. It is a beauti- 

 ful plant in its ftate of fructification, the folioles and capfules 

 being then of a bright gold-yellow. It is an emetic and cathar- 

 tic, and is ufed as fuch by fome people. 



46. Trailing Hypnum, 'with waved jins (y) t is among the rocks 

 under the Roman wall by Gv^-lake ; alfo among thofe at little 

 Waneyboufe-criig, fparingly. It is of a compreffed fhape and creep- 

 ing, fometimes limple, and fometimes branched, two or three 

 inches long, of a yellowifli-green, and glofTy. The fructifica- 

 tions rife in April from the al/e of the leaves, on capillary pedi- 

 cles of a fine red. The capfules are oblong, and of a ftraw-co- 

 lour with calyptra. At the bafe of the pedicle is a fquamofe mat- 

 ter, or involucrum, called by Dillenins> PERICH^ETIUM, which is 



Sp. PI. 1 102. Lycopodium caule ere&o dichotomo. Flo. Lapp. n. 420. Flo. Suec. 

 n. 857. Hort. Cliff, p. 476. Royen. lugdb. p. 506. Selago vulgaris ABIETIS rubrae facie. 

 Dill. Hift. Mufc. p. 435. t. 56. f. i. 



(j>) Hypnum repens crifpum, cauliculis comprefiis, Lycopodii in morem per terram f t >arfi*> 

 Raj. Syn. iii. p. 88. n. 46. Hypnum pennatutn undulatum, Lyropodii inftar fparfum. 

 Dill. Hift. Mufc. p. 271. t, 36. f. ^. 



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