7i6 CRYPTOGAMJA MUSCf. 



&nd ihinly ftr, efpecially on the new ihoots, 

 which appear fmooth and red between them. 



Tlic peduncles anfe from the tops of the old ftalks, 

 at tiivi baJc of the new ones, erect, of a tav/ny 

 red colour; when young an inch high, but when 

 full grown often three inches, and upwards. 

 The capfules are az firft green, elliptical, and 

 pendulous -, when ripe tav/ny and pear-fhap'd, 

 and when burft nearly erecl, or (lightly noddino-. 

 l"he calyplra is reddifh, the operculum ihorr, 

 •whitifli, and conical, The nm of the orifice has 

 Ihort cilia. 



Some of the Ilalks are terminated with a fteljated 

 calyx, having a granulated dilc in the centre. 



The long peduncles, tumid pendulous capfules, 

 and place of growth, readily diftinguilh this 

 fpecies, 



it varies fometimes with leaves of a reddifh colour, 

 clpecially io in the nerves and on the edges. 



BR YUM. Gen. pL 1194. 



Anthera operculata. Calyptra lasvis. 

 Fi [amentum c tuberculo terminal! ortum. 

 SiellafemiNsa nulla in di(lin6lo individuo, 



* Anlheris fejfilibus. 



^.,..„,.^..,.. BRYUM antheris feflilibus terminalibus, calyptra 

 'i, minima, ^p pi. 1579. (Vaii. Paris, t. ly.f.i^. 



bona. Dillen. mufc. t.o^z.f. 4. ^ ejus, var.fig. 5. 

 Oed. Da-.u t. 480. opt.) 



Red 



