CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCL 735 



■■*''■' *** jinthcris niitantihus. 



4rgenteum bRYUM antheris pendulis, furculis cylindricis im- 

 ^* bricatis la^vibus. Sp. 1586. (Fail. Paris, 26. f. 



2. Billen.7nufc. t. ^o.f.Siy i^ (>l. opt.) 



Silver Brytim. Jn^lis. 

 ' Upon houfes, walls and rocks. XII. I, 



The ftalks are cylindrical, from half an inch to an 



■ .. . inch long, of a filvery colour, and grow in 



cluflers. The leaves are oval-lanceoiatej acute, 



■'■-■•'-■• terminated with a hair, denfely imbricated in a 



quadruple feries, and fo clofely preficd to the 



ftalk as not to be difcern'd without a lens. 



»^' ' The peduncle is about half an inch, and arifes nc 



■'•' ' ■ "■ the bale of the ftalks, red at the bottom, paic 



'"*" '' . at the top. The capfules are oval, nodding, 



'''•'_ ■ •' and of a yellowifh colour. The operculum is 



" - •' fhort, obtufe, and orange-colour'd. The rim of 



'■ ' the orifice ciliated. The calyptra dark green, 



., vifible only on the young capfules, and foon af. 



terwards deciduous. 



■ . The young ftalks are green, but grow hi very with 



age. ' - 



puhinatum BRYTJM antheris fubrotundis, pedunculis reflcxis, 

 ■ 26. roliis piliferis. Sp. pi. 1589. {Vail. Paris, t. 29, 



/ 2. Dilkn. mufc. t. 5c./. 65. cpL Moris Jjtji. /„ 

 6./: 21.) , . , 



, , Grey Culhion Bryunn. Jnglis, 

 ,_,;,, Upon walls and tiled houfes frequent. Ill, IV, 



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