CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI. 729 



L-i; . - • yellowifh green, and in the frefn plant are ftcl- 

 n lated at the top, which induced Linnaeus [to 



*' . place it among the MNIUMS, but they hove 



no granulated difc in the centre. In the dry 

 ,ri-. .. plant they are curled or frizzled. The pedun- 



cles are more copious, the capfules fhorter and 

 ' • more oval, of a dark fufcous colour v/hcn ripe. 

 The cilia fliorr. 

 At the bafe of the peduncle is ^ fniall bulb, which 

 occafion'd Haller to rank this mofs with fh» 

 HYPNUMS, but the bulb i^ not fcaly. 



Jet^feu.mi% BRYUM antheris eredtis, operculis filiformibus 

 iongitudine anthcrarum. Hudf. FL Ang. p. 409. 

 M\^\\JM fetaceum. Lin. 8p.pl. i^y^. {^Dillnn. 

 mujc. t. 48. /. 44. j 



Pale ftar-topp'd Bryum. Aoglis. 



Upon walls and rocks. III. IV". 



The rtalks are half an inch high, branched at top 

 and grow in yellqwifh or pale green tufts. The 

 leaves are loofely imbricated, patent, lanceo- 

 - ' late, ac\ite, terniinated with a fhort hair, and 



grow in a barren ftar at the top of the branches. 

 The peduncles arife from the bafe of the 

 branches, out of the lad year's ilioots, an inch 

 high, very (lender, at firft of a pale green, at 

 laft of a fh.ning tawny red colour, with a fmall 

 bulb at their bale. The capjulcs are ere(fl, 

 flender, cylindrical, at firft green, but dark 

 r fufcous and fhining when ripe. The operculum 



is acute, fufcous when ripe, and nearly as long 



as 



