CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI. 707 



At the roots of trees in moiffc Tandy woods in Scot- 

 land^ but often on dry fhady banks by the fides 

 of heaths in England. III. IV. 

 The ftalks grow ere6l, and crowded together, an 

 inch, and fometimes two inches, high ; often 

 fingle, but generally branch'd. The leaves are 

 thick fet, of a fhorc, narrow, lanceolate form, 

 but not acute, of a yellowifli green colour, with 

 a thick green nerve in the middle of each, pa- 

 tent when mo. ft, but curled and preis'd to the 

 flalk when dry. 

 At the fummits of the branches are naked green 

 , peduncles, from i-8th to i-4th of an inch long, 

 - terminated each with a dark green minute pul- 

 j verulent head, which, when magnified, [appears 

 . granulated, and relembles the globular head or 

 germina in the flower of a ranunculus. Thefc arc 

 the fuppofed female frutflifications. 

 From the tops of fome of the branches of the fame 

 individual ftalks which produce the above pul- 

 verulent heads, arile fometimes, but very rarely 

 (according to Dillenius) ereft peduncles, longer 

 : than thofe of the preceding, and terminated with 

 oblong anthera., at firft eredt, fmooth and green, 

 afterwards reddifh, ftriated, and a little inclin'd ; 

 covered with a Calyptra^ tawny at the top, and 

 white towards the bale. The Operculum is coni- 

 cal ; the rim ciliated. 



Thefe anthers we have never yet been able to dif- 

 cover. 



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