CRYPTOGAM'A MUSCL 743 



natecl, creeping, and branched. The pinn^ arc 

 diftichous, alternate, imbricated, acutely elliptical, 



. convex on the upper fide, concave on the under, 

 pale green, tranlparent and fliining, largeft oa 

 the principal rib, fmaller on the branches, mi- 

 nute and almoft capillary at the extremities of 

 the young branches. 



The peduncles arc about half an inch high, co- 

 pious, flcnder, red, and arifc either out of the 

 middle rib, or the angles of tlie branches. The 

 capfules arc ered", fliort, oval, of a yellow hif- 

 ecus colour, turning red when ripe. The oper- 

 culum is conical, yellow and pointed •, the calyp- 

 tra pale and incurved ; the rim has no ring, but 

 is ciliated v;ith white hairs. 



** SurcuUs vagis. 



HYPNUM furculis ramofis, frondibus fubpinna- 

 tis, foliolis pundatis. Sp.pl. 1589. {Dillen. miijc. 

 /. 34. /. 10) 



Large leav'd flfining Hypnum. /fngUs. 



Upon the ground by the fides of rivulets, in dark 

 fliady woods, but not common. III. IV". 



The ftalks lie flat on the ground, are an inch and 



. 3 half, or two inches long, either fimple or 

 flightly branched -, the branches obtufe, and di- 

 lated at the extremity •, the leaves are large, 

 oval, pellucid, membranaceous, elegantly reti- 

 culated with dots of a whitilh green colour, and 

 laxly imbricated in a double or triple ferics. 



The 



