lo CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI. 



/. 17. Vaill. Paris, t. 26./. 16. Dillen. mujc. /. 

 52./. 75. 0\)t.) 



Yellow bulbed Mnium. Angl'n. 



In woods, gardens, by road-fides, and upon walb, 

 I-V. 



The leaves are oval-acute, of a Oiining yellow^fli 

 green colour, and connive together into the form 

 of a fcaly bulb ; from the centre of which arifes 

 a yellovvilh filament, about an inch and a half 

 long, bearing a pear-fliap'd, or inverted conical 

 nodding anthcra. The filament, at its firil ap- 

 pearance, IS erccl and whitifli, and the calypira 

 llraw-colour'd, quadrangular, and pyramidal. 

 When more advanced that and the anthera nodj 

 and the caly-ptra becomes lateral and fpoon- 

 fliap'd, or broad at the bafe, and acuminated at 

 the top. The operculum is obtufe, with a red 

 annular border. 



The filaments in dry weather are erect, and do but 

 nightly nod, but in wet v/eather are rcRexed 

 and twilled-, and l.innaus informs us, that if a 

 iliy faplefs filament be drawn between moift 

 fingers, from the bale half way upwards, the 

 anthera will be inftantly reflexed \ but if the 

 fame be drawn from the anthera half way down- 

 wards, it will be twifted afide •, 'io that this mofs 

 has the properties of an hygrometer. 

 About February and March fome of the plants 

 have their leaves formed into a ftellated calyx, 

 having a fmall red difc in the centre, which con- 

 Aitutes this mofs a Mnium. 



MNIUM 



