728 CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI. 



On the highland mountains, and in woods. IX. 

 The ftalks are from one to two inches high, 

 branched, and growing in tufts. The leave? 

 are long, narrow, lanceolate, or almoft fubu- 

 late, denfcly jmbrjcated, erecfl, or flightly in- 

 curved in the young and moifl: plant, t>ut greatly 

 curled or frizzled in the old and dry ones, and 

 of a yeliowifh colour, with a mixture of dull 

 green. The peduncles arife either from the 

 I'ummits or the fides of the upper branches, 

 cither of a pale or of a reddiHi yellow colour, 

 about an inch high, having a fmall bulb at the 

 .bafe. The capfule is eredt, oblong, and nearly 

 cylindrical ; the operculum conical, and re^ at 

 the bale, with a long claw-like point ; the ori- 

 fice ciliated with long, red, twifted hairs •, tke 

 capfules yeliowifh green, and brown when ripe •■, 

 the rim of the orifice is fmooth, and without 

 cilia in fuch capfules as have been long burfl. 



|t varies with leaves but little curled even in the 

 dry fpecimens, 



drralumi? BRYUM antheris eredlis, foliis rtellatis arefaftionc 

 revolutis. Hudf. Fl Jftg. 409. MNIUM cirra- 

 tum. Sp. pL J 5 '6. (Dilten. mujc. t. 48. /, 42, 

 i^ var fortajje major f. 41.) 

 Star-topp'd frizzled Bryum, Anglis. 

 In woods frequeflt. IV". 



This greatly refembles the preceding, but is fmaller 

 and about half an inch high. 7'he leaves arc 



yeliowifh 



