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tj - vjckd by a nervf, and collcded into a fiarry 



duller at the top of the ftalk, from the centre 

 of which arifes a yellow peduncle, half an inch 

 high, bearing a fhort green cylindrical capfule, 

 v;ith a long-pointed operculum^ totally covered 

 with a very remarkable large, ftraw colour'd,, 

 ere(5l, tranfparent, mcmbranacaous cahplra^ near 

 a cylindrical figure, but pointed at the top, and 

 ^ , hanging loofely over, lower than the capfule,. 

 like an extinguiflicr upon a candle, and ciliated 

 at the bafe. 

 p. There is a large variety of this, with branched 

 fl:alks, an inch high, covered with rufty down 

 at the bafr, but in other refpecls fimiiar. Dillcn, 



fuhulalum^ BRYUM antheris ereclis fubulatis, furculis acau- 

 '-' ' libus. Sp.pL i5b'i. ^Faii. Paris, t. IS- f- 8. bona, 

 ' • .-'- Dillen. mufr. t. 45./. 10. opt.) 

 Subulated Eryum. Anms. 

 In ihady woods, and in damp hollow glens, and 



fiiTurcs of rocks, but not common. III. 



The leaves are lanceolate,- acuminated, and ex- 



" , panded, and grow in a ftar-like and almoil \t{- 



fik clufter ; from the centre of which ariles a 



firm yellowifli peduncle, about an inch high, 



bearing a remarkably long, curv'd, cylindrical, 



fubularcrd capfule, of a yellowifli green colour, 



.,, .. • covered with a fnarp-pointed yellow calyptra^ 



,,.. \ . adhering clofe to the capfule. T\\t opercuhim \% 



^,-^, > " "^ '"' ior.g, conical, and furrounded v/irh an orange- 



colour'd 



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