'710 



Turah 6. 



murde 7. 



CRYPIOGAMIA MUSCI. 



colour'd ring at the bafe, when tliS capfulc is 

 ripe. 



BRYUM antheris erediufculis, foliis piliferis rc- 

 curv.s. Sp-p^. 15^"- (Vail. Paris, t. 25./. 3. bo- 

 na. Dilkn.mufc. t. 45./. 12.) 



Hoary rulllc Bryum. AngUs. 



On the North or Weft fide of thatch'd cottages 

 frequent, and fometuiics on walls aau trunks ol 

 trees. HI. IV. 



The ftalks grow in tufts or patches, erccc, branch'd 

 and two inches high •, the leaves are broad, lan- 

 ceolate, acute, and terminated with a white hair ; 

 vvhen frelh and nioift, they are of a yellowilh 

 preen colour, expanded and recurved at the 

 points •, but, when dry, they are contracted, 

 and of a fulcous green colour. The peduncles 

 are of a pale red, about an inch high, and ariie 

 either out of the fummits of the young bran- 

 ches, or a little below out of tlie one-year-old 

 ones', having a green naked conic bulb at their 

 bafe! The capfules are erecT:, cylindrical, and 

 of a reddifli brown colour. The operculum is 

 lone, conical, and a little incurved. The ca- 

 iyptra tawny, and erecT at firft, afterwards in- 



• curved and iulcous. The rim of the orifice has 

 long ciHa. 



BRYUM antheris ereftis, foliis piliferis reaiufcu- 



lis- furculis finplicibus coefpitofis. Sp.pL 15^}* 

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