ro2 CRYPTOGAM! A MUSCI. 



y^'^'-'-irkhoides. Lin. Sp. pi 1576. POLYTRI- 

 "" ■■ '" QHU^A fuhrotundum. var. (3. Hudf. FL yJug. 400, 

 (Vnii Pa: is. /. 29. /. 1 1- Dilkn. C. SB- f- 7- °P^') 

 ■•'■'" Dwarf Polytrichum. ^-ngUs. 



In damp iieathy places. XII-II. ." 

 . I'hc Raiks are from a quarter ro; half an inch high, 

 fiDgle, or rarely branched. The leaves are 

 linear and obtufc, tlfick and rigid, finely fer- 

 - ^ rated on tlie margins, and of a dark green co- 



lour. The filament is reddifh, and about an 

 inch high; the anihera nearly cylindrical, and 

 without an o.pophyfis\ the powder green j the 

 calyptra ^ovth\<i^ one within the other; the in- 

 terior one fmooih ; the exterior fhort, wide and 

 , "" conical, compofed of hairs only of a pale yel- 

 ■ low, or whitiHi colour. 



The female plants pioduce rofaceous or llarr^ 



cups. 

 There is a variety of this with fefllle or fcarcely 

 any (lalks, with leaves quite entire, and anthera 

 cr capfules fhorter, and confequently rounder. 

 This is i\\c ^. fubroiundum of Hudfoii's FL Jng. 

 p. 400. FaiL Paris, t. 26. /. 15. Moris, hiji.f. 

 15. /. 7. /. 7. D-lkn. mufc. t. S5' f- ^ opt.) 

 We chofe to pb-ce this mofs here rather than 

 amongu the MNL'l, becaufe the hsiwy caiyptra 

 is a more obvious charaLler, efpecially to a 

 Tyre in ihe icience, than the want of an apo' 

 fhyfis. 



POLYTRICHUM 



