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clufter in the young fnoots, but ilcllated in the 

 old ones. 

 The peduncles are about an inch long, cre^l, red 

 at the bale, pale or yellowini towards the top, 

 and arife out of the iumniits of the hl\ year's 

 flioots, or at the bafe of the new fhcots. The 

 capfule is cylindrically oval or elliptical, pendu- 

 lous and green, yellowifh when ripe. The oper- 

 ' ciilum is tranfparent, papillary, green at firil, 



red and fhining when ripe. The calyptra is thin 

 ereift, and fuicous in the young plants, oblinue 

 and red in the adult ones. 



It Varies with broader leaves, and with longer and 



fliorter peduncles. 

 Haller ranks this mofs among the Hypniciu^ on ac- 

 count of the vagina^ or perichcctium at the bafe 

 ^ ^ of the filament. 



iapiilarei^ BRYUM antheris pendulis, folils ovatis fetiferis 

 carinatis, pedunculis longiiTimis. Sp. pi 1586. 

 ' \ " ■■ MNIUM capillar e. Syft. nat. edit. 13. p. jg6: 



(Moris, hift, f. 15. t.6. f. 19. p'ail. Paris, t. 24, 

 / 6. Dillen. t. 50./. 67. cpt.) 

 ■' Capillary Bryum. Greater pendulous matted Bry- 

 um. Anglis. 

 ' ■ .- In woods, heaths, and gravelly foils. IV. 



This is extremely like the preceding in its whole 

 habit, and perhaps is only a variety of it. It 

 differs, however, in being larger in all its parts : 

 the fhoots Or branches are longer -, the leaves 

 wider towards the extremity, of a fine green, and 

 B b b more 



