CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI. %7 



--, ( nated with a long point or beard. The top cf 

 the filament, or peduncle, (wells into the fonn 



•>.-'-■ of an inverted cone, which Linn/ us terms an 



.•••i;.' Apsphyjls, or Umbraculum\ upon the tep cf 



/ • which is placed a cylindrical Anlhera^ like the 



-* neck of a crewet. The Ca'.ypira is eonical, and 



-.'■... refembles a fmall extinguifhcr. 



vafiukrum SPLACHNUM umbraculo ampullaceo fubglo- 



?. bofo. Sp. pi. 1572. {Rail Syn. /^. 93. /. 3. /• 2. 



D^llen. mufc. t. 44-/. 4. bona. Oed. Dav. t. 192, 



op.) PHASCUM pedunculatumh. Huaf. FL Jng. 



397-^ 



Acorn-fhap'd Splachnum. Anglis. 



Upon bogs and cow-dung, and upon the points 

 of rocks on the tops of the highland moun- 

 tains, as on Ben-Lomond, and in the ifle oi Sky^ 

 and elfewhere. Dr. Eurgefs obferved it alfo in 

 the lowlands, as on Scarbrae-mojs^ in the parifh 

 of Kirkmichaelf, growing upon cow dung, and 

 in fevcral other wet places. VII. VIII. 



This differs little from the preceding, and perhaps 

 is no more than a variety. Tne filaments are 

 about an inch high, The leaves oval- acute, 

 not fo lanceolate and bearded as the other. 

 The Apophyfis, witii the Anthera at the top of it, 

 form together nearly an oval figure, not unlike 

 an acorn in its cup, the Apophyfis being tranf- 

 verfely fcmioval, and of a blood-red colour; 

 the Anikera fhort and conical. The Calyptra is 



