CRYPTCGAMIA MUSCI. yop 



Fountain Mnium. A)iglis. 



In bogs, and on the borders of cold fprings fre- 

 quent. VII. VlII. 

 This elegant mofs is from two to four inches high ; 

 the ftalks are fimple at the bafe, and covered 

 with a rufty down, but higher up are red, and 

 divided into fcveral round, fingle, taper brandies, 

 which proceed nearly from the fame point. The 

 leaves are not more than i-iith of an inch long» 

 lanceolate and acute, of a Vv'hitifli green colour, 

 and fo thinly fet that the red (talk appears be- 

 tween them. The filaments are two inches long, 

 red, and arifc from the als of the branches. 

 The anthene are thick, flriated, gibbous, nearlv 

 globular, a little inclined, of a greenilh colour, 

 tinged with red or brown. The Operculum is 

 Ihort and conical. 

 Some other ftalks are terminated with a radiated 

 calyx, confining of five or fix leaves, furround- 

 ing a dufty orange-colour'd difc •, which Haller 

 affirms to be the origin of the future branches, 

 into which the ftalk. will be divided. 

 This mofs, as it m^y be feen at a confiderable dif- 

 tance, is a good mark to lead to the dlfcovery of 

 clear and cold fprings. Linnrus informs us, that 

 fhe Laplanders are well acquainted with this fign. 

 Flcr. Lap. p. 322. 



'A'growetri- MNIUiM acaule, anthera nutante, calyptra reflexa 

 cum 5. tetrasona. Sp, pL 1575. (Moris, hiji. f, 15. /. 7. 



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