CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI. 725 



aciculare BRYUM antherls eredis, operculo aciformi, fo- 

 .■^2. )jis ereftis fuhfecundis, Sp. pi. 1583. [Dillen. 



mufc. /. 46./. 25.) 



Sharp-headed mountain Bryum, Anglis. 



Upon moill rocks by the fides of rivulets, in the 

 highlands and lowlands, frequent. VIII. 



The ftalks are an inch, or an inch and a half high, 

 ere<^ and branched, every where denfely imbri- 

 cated with Ihort, lanceolate, dark green, or 

 olive- colour'd leaves, flighrly leaning one way. 



The peduncles are near an inch high, of a dark 

 red colour ; the ^oung ones arife out of the 

 fummits of tlie new branches, t;he older ones, 

 from the fides, out of the laft year's flioots. 

 ■ ■ The capfules are oblong, quite ereft, and co- 

 vered with a Iharp-pointed operculum. The ca. 

 fyptra is pale brown and acute •, t,he rim of the 

 orifice without cilia. 



fiexuofum BRYUM antheris ereftis, foliis fetaceis, pedun- 

 13, culis fiexuofis. Sp. pi. 1583. {DWen. mufc. t. 47, 



Waved fl^ank'd Bryum. Anghs, 



We gathered this only once, on Crawford moor, 

 near the Lead-hHU, on the confines of Lanerk- 

 fhire. VI. 



The ftalks are about an inch high, very fiender, 

 eredl, fingle, or but (lightly branched, and co- 

 vered with a fufcous down at the bafe. The 

 leaves are fetaccous, or of a narrow lirvear-lan. 



ccolate 



