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74^ CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI. 



point ; the cniyptra is long, with a reddidi tip j 

 the rim ciliated with pale dents. 



fnquelrum HYPNUM ramis vagis recurvis, folils ovans re^ 

 curvatis patiils. .•-p. pi. 1589. (FazY. Paris. /. 

 ■ 2S./. 9. Dil/en rnujc. /. 38-/. 2H.) 

 Great pale triangular Hypnum. Auglis. 

 In woods, about the roots of trees, and in barren 

 grounds abundantly, X-XII. 



The flalks vary from four to eight or nine inches 

 high, nearly erect, ftiff and elallic, of a red co- 

 lour, irrer^ularly branched ^ the branches hori- 

 zontal, deflex'd, and taper at tlieir ends. 



The leaves are broad, triangular, acute, pellucid, 

 flightly ilreak'd, and fo open and expanded 

 that the red nerv^ of the ilalk is diftinflly fcen 

 between them. When young or fieiji they are 

 of a pale green •, when dry, of a yellowilh white 

 colour •, largcfl on the principal ftalk, efpecially 

 at the top ; fmallcit on tl:c branches. 



The peduncles are one or two inches high, of a, 

 br ght red fhining colour, and arife generally 

 rear the angles of the bianches, out of a fcaly^ 

 oblong, rcddifti pericb^tiunt. 



The capfules at firft are flender, and flightly le,an- 

 jno-, covered with a bending calyptra •, after- 

 wards they fwell, become cynndrical, reddifh, 

 curv'd and nodding, and at laft are fufcous and 

 ftriaced. The opertulmn is very (hort, obtufe 



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