CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCL Sqs 



The ftalks are filiform, red, branched, eight or 

 ten inches long, and float with the ftream. The 

 leaves are oval-lanceolate, their fides comprcfs'd, 

 and are loofely imbricated in a triple feries. 

 The capfules, or /^nthera, arjfe out of the aLe of 

 the leaves, about i.he middle and lower pare of 

 the ftalk and branches, having very fhort pe- 

 duncles, and included within a feilile ^^rzV^^//^ 

 itniy or cup, compofed of oval fcales. Thefe 

 anther<£ are of a cylindrically oval form, having 

 7, pointed red conical Operculum. The Calyptra, 

 or cap, is conical, and the rim of the Anthera 

 ciliated. 

 Linn.tus informs us, that the Sivedes cram this 

 mofs between the wood-work in their chimnies, 

 to prevent their taking fire, which induced him 

 to give it the name of Antipyreiica. 



F. foliis ovato-lanceolatis trifariis acutis, paflim g©. 

 minis, antheris terminalibus, Sp.pl, i^yi. (Di/* 

 len. miifc. t. 33./. "2.) 



Lefler Water-mofs. AngUi. 



It grows in the like places with the preceding, and 

 is nearly related to it, perhaps only a variety. 

 It is about three or four inches long, more 

 branched, the leaves fmaller, more obtufe, con- 

 cave, but not comprefs'd, and more clofely im- 

 bricated. The capfules grow out of the ends 

 of the lateral branches, v^hich is the molt ma^ 

 tsrial diftindlon. 



FONTINALIS. 



