CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI. 73^ 



It varies with leaves of a darker green colour, 

 tipped either with longer or fhorter hairs, and 

 fometimes has no hairs at all. It is found alio 

 with wider leaves, recurved at the point, and 

 more or lefs denfcly imbricated, whence the va- 

 riety of figures given by Dillenitis, 



BRYUM antheris eredis, pedunculis ficcitate con- 

 tortis, foliis piliferis, furculis, faftigiatis. Hudf. 

 FL Ang. p. 411. var, |3. fed an B. vertkillatum 

 Lin.Sp.pL 1585. dubium eft. (Dillen. mitfc. t. 

 47./. 34. plant iff nojira bene refpondci.) 



Green-pointed Bryum. Anglis. 



On the fides of the highland mountains in Brea- 

 dalhc.ne^ on Ben-Lohiond^ &c. X-V. 



The ftaiks grow in tufts, are an inch high, erecV, 

 flender, divided into two or three, and fome- 

 times half a dozen upright branches pointed at 

 top, and generally turned a little to one fide. 

 The leaves every where furround the ftalk, arc 

 very numerous, narrow, and fetaceous, termi- 

 nating in a fine flender point, without a hair. 

 They often incline a little to one fide of thc- 

 ftalk. Thofe at the fummits of the branches 

 are of a deep green colour. The inferior part 

 of the ftaiks, and all the lower leaves are fuf- 

 cous. 



Tlie peduncles are redd ifh, very fhort, being not 

 above a line or two higher than the top of the 

 plant, and arife generally out of the fummits of 

 the inferior branches. The capfule is ert(51:, 



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