6fi8 CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI, 



rounded with eight longitudinal oblique feries of 

 - lanceolate, fmooth, rigid, imbricated leaves. 

 Near the fummits of the branches, in the aU 

 • of the leaves, are placed fingle kidney-ihap'd 

 caplulcs, confifting of two valves, which opert 

 horizontally like the Ihells of an oyfter, and caft 

 cut a tine yellow powder. Thefe capfdles Lin- 

 iij:us fuppofes to be Anther-^^ or male parts of 

 frucStiftcation. 



la the nice alfo of many cyf the leaves, near the 

 ' toDS of the branches, are often found what the 

 fame f^te?t author calls /f^J^/^/oty^rj, but which 

 the ingenious Hdler eftcems to be only gems or 

 . buds of a future plan^ They confift, firft, of 

 four ftiff, lanceolate, incUrv'd, minute leaves, 

 . one of the outermoft longer and larger than the 

 reft. Thefe are fuppofed to correfpond to the 

 cP.lyx in regular flowers. Again, at the bottom 

 ■ of this r^/j.x aie five fm all pellucid fubftances, 

 ' ' refembling leaves, vifible only by a microfcope^ 

 ' which arcTfuppoi-d analogous to piftils. Thefe, 

 hi time, grow up into three large broad leaves, 

 ■ two of the five united together like the hoof of 

 an ox, with a third narrower one annexed at the 

 bafe, 'and two other minute ones oppofitc to the 

 ' other three. Thefe five leaves are joined at the 

 bafe, and in Autumn, falling from the calyxy 

 ves'tate, £ad produce a new plant. See a 

 djiertatiofl d£. jemmh'j mifconim. Amo:mt Aca~ 



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