To^ - CRYPTOGAM! A MUSCI. 



the whole rcddifh in decay. They grow nlter- 



nate, and are thinly fet in a quadrangular order. 



Some of the (laiks are almoft naked near the top, 



but terminated v/ith a radiated crown of oval- 



.^ ■ . . . acuj-e leaves, having minute fufcous globules in 



the centre, which, magnified, appear to be com- 



" pofed of extrem.ely fmall reddifli brown leaves. 



Thefe are fuppofed by Linnaeus to be female 



fru<?:ifications ; by Haller^ to be the gem or 



• ' ■ origin of a new plant, or branch. 



■_ '.^ Other ftalks are terminated with a pale filament, 



' ' ■ ■■ ■ or peduncle, of about an inch long, having an 



; ■ . ■ ' • erefl, cylindrical, tawny anibera, or caplule, 



* ""■ ■ ■■ '" ■ covered with afnooth, long, fubulated calyptra, 

 yellow at the top, white and lacerated at the 

 bafe. The operculum is red, conical, pointed, 

 and often bifid-, the rimi edged with long cilia. 

 \ Thefe are looked upon by Limt^eus as the Antheray 



. r or male parts of fruftification •, by Haller as 

 capfules, containing within them the various in- 

 ■^' ' vifible parts of fructification, and fo con efpond- 



' ■ ing in fome meafure to the flefliy receptacle of a 

 ficr, which enclofcs within it all the flowers of 

 that tree. .r'-.-'r-'' ''-^..xi 



The above anthcra^ or capfjles, are rarely found. 



'' gndror-- MNIUM caulc ramofo androgynum. Sp.pl. 1574. 

 mm 2. (DilUn. mufc. t. 31./. r. bona. Vaill. Paris. /. 29. 



.' ; ,;^ /. 6. bona. Mich. Gen. t. 59. /. 8. H. K. e. Oed. 



Dan. t. 2C)<^. opt.) 

 Little globular-headed Mninm. Ati^tis. 



At 



