CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI. 749 



The peduncles are red, from one to two inches 

 '• ^igh, and arife out of the middle nerve. The 



capfules are oblong, inclin'd, green at firil, red 

 v;hen ripe. The operculum fliorr, conical, and 

 obtu!e ; the calyptra, vifible only upon the young 

 capfules, is flraight and paie. 



We have obferved that the water, in which this 

 mofs is found to grow, has generally an encruft- 

 ing or petrifying qualiiy, which may be readily 

 difcovered by examining the bafc cf the llalks. 



iriila caf- HYPNUM furculis pinnatis, ramulis approxima- 

 ivenfis 12. tis, apicibus vccurvh. S p. pL 1591. (P^ai/. Paris, 

 t, 27. /. 14. bona. Dillcn. t. 36./. 20, opi.) 

 - '•■ ' Plume-crefted Hypnum. Ar!;jjis. 



Upon rocks, and about the roots of trees, in dry 

 woods and (loney foils not unfrequent, efpecially 

 in the highlands. Ill, 

 This greatly refembles the preceding, but diiTers 



• from it in the following relpeds : The llalks are 

 •' . ■ much fhorter, and grow in wide, thick, niattcd, 



intricate patches. Tlie/;/«?;^, or branches (el pe- 

 cially towards the top of tb.e ftalk) are crowded 

 clofe together, and curled at the ends, like the 

 plume of the oftrich. The peduncle is not above 

 half an inch high ; the capfule is Pnorcer, and 



• . ; more oval, and the operculum is not obtufe, but 



furaifhed with a fhort beard or point. 'J he cap- 

 fules are ia;;ely to be found. 



■■'-■. HYPNUM 



