73^ CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI. 



obtufe capfules, of a blackifh brown colour, 

 with a wide orifice. 



hypnoides BRYUM antheris ercdis, caule ereaiufculo, ra- 

 ^'* mis lateralibus brevibus tertilibus. Sp.pl- 1584. 



(Moris, hifi.f. 15. /. 5./. 7, H^//^r. hijl. n. 1780. 

 /. 46./. 4. Vivien, mufc. t. 47./. 32. ^ (?;«j 'y<«- 

 rietates f. ^r, 27, 2!?, 29, 30. Cs? /. 46. /. 26. 

 Oed. Dan. t. 476.) 

 Hoary alpine Bryum. Jnglis. 

 Upon the mountains and rocks in the highlands 



and lowlands abundactly. X. 

 The ftalks are nearly ereft, varying from one to 

 fix inches high, and grow often in large tufts, 

 or cufhions. They are fometimes fingle, but 

 ^re ulually divided into a few large branches, 

 which fhoot out many fhorr, alternate, fmaller 

 ones from their fides, which are thickeft at the 

 ends. The leaves are narrow, lanceolate, acute, 

 terminated with a long white hair, and every 

 where furround the ftalks ; the older ones ful- 

 cous, the young ones of a ycllowifli green co- 

 lour, growing in a thick clurter at the extremi- 

 ties of the branches, and often flighrly bending 

 to one fide. 

 The peduncles are erecV, yeliowifn, about a quar- 

 ter of an inch long, and arifc out of a pale 

 conic pericbatium., or bulb, near the extremities 

 of the lefler lateral branches. The capfules are 

 ered, oval, and brownifh. The operculum red, 

 with a long point. The orifice ciliated 5 in 



fome fpecimens with long red hair. 



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