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CRYPTOGArvHA MUSCL 699 



; , ■ are of a fhining red, or orange colon)-, from 

 . two to four inches long, arifing Hngly from ihc 

 • top of the (talks, and furrounded at their bafe 

 jHkc-:' • : with a cylindrical tubular x'l^i^/j;^, or periib^eii.. 

 ,. ' um. T\\t Anthcra, or Ccipfuie, is qisadrai-irrij. 

 lar, green at firft, afterwards yellow, and rt'd 

 •. f' ;- when ripe, having &x\ ?^v.^,v^^r pedejal, ov <^po- 

 i-< -." • /(i&^V/j, at its hale, T\\t Operculum \% ?i?t^ wiih 



^■.\' ■ ;- ^a-projecling point in the centre, and underneath 



/■ '. , is a whicifh circular membrane, placed in the 



middle of the capfulc's orifice, and luilaincd 

 there by numerous arched threads, or dlsa, con- 

 '■'- ' ne6led by one end to the circumfcence of this 



■ ' membrane, and by the other failened to the 



ring of the nntbera. The pclic ft, or, :i!i others 

 " , ' • tertn it, the feed, is freed from the cnihsra or 



•' ■ t"j/)/K/f through the fpace beiwcen the f ///.'?. Thz 



calyptra is two-fold, an internal and external 

 one; both which at hrit entirely cover and hano; 

 over the ^f/Zi'^rtf. The internal one is conicai, 

 membranaceous and fmooth -, the external o;:c 

 ' is compofed only of tawny hairs, connecli-d in- 



to a <b'i: of mat, lacerated at the bafe, and 

 fervina; lik- a roof of di/Lch to defend the 

 other. 

 The difcovcry of this two fold Calyplra we O'/.c 

 entirely to our ingenious friend, Mr. C«;-//,f, the 

 celebrated author of the Flora Londinenfis, and 

 ■■ a mod: fa;j;acious obfcrver of Nature's works. 



Befides the flalks before defcribed, there are com- 

 ■;;: V monly fome others near at hand, which arc def- 



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