7c«. • CRYPTOGAMiA MUSCL 



. titute both of filaments and capfules, but are 

 terminated with a kind of rolaceoiis cup, either 

 - • cf a bright red or ycllowifli colour, compofcd 

 of leaves of different fizes, the outermoft broad, 

 the innermoft lanceolate, growing gradually 

 more and more fine and (lender to the centre. 

 This cup is look*d upon by Linnaus as the female 

 flower of this mofs, but Haller is of opinion 

 that it is only the gem or origin of a new ftalk, 

 which frequently riles from its centre, and this 

 again becomes fomctimes prolifergus, 



mimn |3. There are two varieties of this mofs : the firft has 

 much fhorter ftalks than the preceding, and often 

 branched •, the leaves ftiffer, eredt, and more 

 crouded, in other refpeds the fame. VajH- Paris, 

 t, 23./. 6. £5? 7. Mfiris. bifi.f. 15. i. j.fg. 6. 

 £5? 8. Dilkfj. tnufC' t. 54./. 2. opt. Oed. Dan. t. 



295-) 

 The ieffer Polytrichum. Anglis. 



iiilofum " The other has a ftalk fcarcely more than half an 

 inch high, terniinated with a clufter of linear, 

 ered, rigid leaves, for the moll: part entire on 

 the edges, and tipp'd each v/ith a white hair. 

 The filament is about an inch high, and the 

 capfule quadrangular. The female flower, or 

 gem, is of a bright red colour. Halkr makes 

 this a diftine^ fpecies. Dillen. mujc. t, 54./. 3. 

 Small hairy Polytrichum, Anglis. 



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