CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI. 721 



• {Fail. Parts, t. 24. /. 15. bem. Bilkn. mufi. ;. 

 , . 45./. i/[.opt.) 



Wall Bryum, JngUi. 

 "' Upon houfes, walls, and rocks common. III. 



This grows in convex tufts, the ftalKS fefiiie and 



fimple, or very flightly branched ; the leaves 



■ are oval-lanceolate, concave, terminated with a 



white hair, and grow in a flar-likc expanded 



duller. The peduncles are about an inch high, 



df a tawny yellow colour j the capfulcs arc 



ere(5l, nearly cylindrical, green at firll, but red- 



difli brown when ripe. The operculum is coni- 



nical and Tubulated; the calyptra fufcous, acute, 



lateral, and a little incurv'd. The rim of the 



"^ orifice faffron-colour'd, and ciliated with long 



hairs, twilled when dry. 

 i^i There is a variety of this, the leaves of which 

 have no hairs at the point. Sec Vail. Paris. /, 

 24./. 14. £5* tab. 25./. 4. DiUen. mufc. t. 45, /. 

 15.; 



/topariumZ BRYUM antheris eredliufculis, pcdunculis aggrc- 

 gatis, foliis fecundis recurvatis, caule declinato. 

 Sp.pl- 1582. (Vail. Paris, t. 28. /. 12, bonai 

 Dillen mufc. t. 46. f. i6i opt.) 



"' Broom Bryum. Anglis. 



In woods and heaths frequent. IV-VII, 



The ftalks vary from one to four inches in height, 



are branched, and nearly eredl at the bale, but 



ben; higher up at the angles of the branciics j 



A a a coYcrfid 



