180 John Lewis Russell on the 
tab. 31. fig. 9. Muscol. Brit. tab. 98. Fruit in June: 
Chelmsford ! also finely in fruit, May, Hingham ! 
B. palustre. (Swartz.) Br. Fl. II. p. 57. Muscol. Brit. 
tab. 98. In moist situations and among bushes in edges of 
woods; generally furnished with barren heads  (capitula.) 
Young fruit November, Chelmsford ! 
— B. argenteum. (Linn.) Muscol. Brit. tab. 99. Br. Fl. IL. 
p. 60. Hedw. Sp. Musc. p. 181. Brid. Bry. Univ. I. p. 
657. On hard trodden paths; garden walks ; old walls, and 
on soil in pots of cultivated plants: fruiting in October. 
Common. 
p. 201, tab. 29. Dill. Musc. tab. 50, fig. 6. In rocky pas- 
tures and roadsides: fruit in early spring. Common. y 
B. nutans. (Schreb.) Br. Fl. II. p. 61. Muscol. prit. 
tab. 29. Dill. Muse. tab. 50, fig. 61, &c. On old decaying 
stumps of trees: fruit in June. Capsule and fruitstalk of an 
orange-red color when mature. Hingham ! 
B. ciliare. Greville, in Annals of the Lyceum of Natural 
History, of New York, Vol. I. p. 273, tab. 23. Resembles 
B. ligulatum, Schreb., and also B. affine, Blandov. much 
more, but distinguished from the former by serratures at the 
edge of the leaf, consisting of articulated cili#, and from ud 
latter by a solitary fruitstalk; Margin of brooks. Hingham 
“Environs of Boston,” B. D. Greene! 
