734 CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI. 



■ fl-.o;r, and roundifh, green at firft, fufcous 

 when ripe. The operculum is reddilh, with a 

 broad bafc, and a Ihort curved point in the 

 cenu'e. 



Whether this be the B. 'uerticiUatum intended by 

 Lwn^us is doubtful, but it certainly is that of 

 Billcnms^ to the figure of which I have referred. 



It is nearly related to the B. heteromallum aoove. 



pir-purcum BP.YUM caule dichotomo, axillis pedunculiferis 

 24. anthera eredla, foliis carjnatis. Hudf. Fi Jng. f. 



412. MNIUM ■purpiireum. Lin. ^'p. pL iSlS- 

 (Di'kn. mujc. t. 49./. 51.) 



Purple Bryum. AngUs. 



Upon walls, rocks, and in light gravelly foils fre- 

 quent. IV. V. 



The ftalks are ered, from half an inch to an inch 

 high, (lightly branched towards the top, and 

 grow in delicate green tufts. The leaves are fu- 

 bulate, patent, and form, at the fummits of 

 tliC branches, barren rofaceous ftars. The pe- 

 xiuncles are numerous, about an inch high, 

 creft, of a bright red colour, vifible at a confi- 

 derable diftance, ajid produced from the aU of 

 the branches, 



The cnpiuies are oval, ercft, and green, when 



young, but reddifli, and a little inclin'd when 



-• , ripe. The operculum is red, acute, and conical. 



The chlyptra dull red, ereft at firR, but after- 



v*ards oblique. 



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