CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI. -^39 



pointed fummits. The leaves are greenilh in 

 - the young plants with a flight tinge of red, but 

 at the top of the old branches of a fliining dark 

 red colour. The Italics at the bafc are fufcous. 

 The peduncles are red, an inch high, and arifeout 

 pf the angles of the branches from the old 

 flioots, having a red bulb or perichcstium at their 

 bafe. The capfules arc oblong, pendulous, ob- 

 tufe, green when young, reddifh when ripe. 

 The caiyptra is reddifh , the operculum has a Ihorc 

 ©btufe pointy and the ring is ciliated. 

 Ohf. The tops of the branches in the dry plants 

 are very likethofeof xht common Hypnum fert- 

 ceum^ except in colour. 



HYPNUM. Gen. pi. 1195. 



/Inthera dperculata. Caiyptra laevis. 

 filamentum laterale ortum e pcrichsetio. 



• Frondihus pinnatis. 



hjoides I. HYPNUM fronde fimplicinina pinnata lanceola- 

 ta, apice pedunculifera. Sp.pl. 1588. {Fail. Pa» 

 ris. t. 24r- f' 13* bova, Ji non optima. Dilleh. t. 34. 

 /. I. b(ma. Oed. Dan. t. 473-/. i.) 



Little pinnated Hypnum. Angliso 



In woods and fhady places. II-IV", 



This is the Icail of all the BritifJj Hypnums. It 

 confifts of a fingle pinnated leaf, about a quar- 

 ter of an inch long, fcveral growing together, Hl 

 little reclining. The phin^ are alternate, gene- 

 rally feven or eight pair, lanceolate, flightly 

 B b b 2 curved. 



