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two inches long, each of which sustains a 

 globular head, larger than usual in mosses, 

 bent obliquely, and of a green colour. 

 The calyptra or veil is remarkably small» 

 smooth, and membranous, 



3. is a moss {Bri/icm hiinum FL Brit. 

 Engl. Bot. 1. 1518.) whose stem and leaves 

 partake of a blood-red hue. The latter are 

 regularly and alternately imbricated, ob- 

 long, pointed ; the upper ones forming a 

 head at the summits of the branches, as in 

 No. 1, but the disk is not exposed, for the 

 lower leaves which surround it are the 

 longest, and the inner ones shortest, just 

 the reverse of No. 1. This No. 3 there- 

 fore is the male, and No. 4 the female, 

 both found on the same plant*. The latter 



* Here we find the Hedwiglan theory of the fructi- 

 fication of mosses forestalled by the good sense and 

 accurate observation of Linnasus, though out of re- 

 spect for Dillenius he soon after adopted the erroneous 

 opinion of the latter, making what is really the male 

 the female, and vice versa. See Transactions of the 

 Linnaean Society, v. 7. 253. Not being able to in- 

 vestigate every point of systematical and physiological 



