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CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCL . 75-? 



have a fingnlar, fiat, chain-like appearance on 

 the upper fide. 

 The leaves are oval-lanceolate, convex on the up- 

 per fide, concave on the under, recurv'd witli 

 all their points downwards, terminated with a 

 hair, and denfeiy imbricated in many feries. 

 *"'■' The peduncles arife, without order, out of tlie 

 middle nerve, llender, of a tawny red colour, 

 hardly an inch high. 

 The capfules are fhorr, cylindrical, eredt, or but 

 very (lightly curved, of a pale green colour ac 

 firft, tawny when ripe. The operculum is Ihort, 

 conical, and pointed % the catyptra erect and 

 yellowifh, 



kduncumi'J HYPNUM flirculis erediufculis fubramofis, fo^ 

 liis fecundis recurvis fubulatis, ramis rccurvatis. 

 Sp^ pi. IS9'2.. {DJllen. mufc. t. 37, /. 26.; 



Hooked bog Hypnum. AngUs, 



In bogs and wet paftures. V. 



The {talks are from two to four inches high, erecl> 

 (lightly and irregularly branched. 



The leaves are fubulate, falcated, and all turn 

 one way, crowded at the ends of the flalk and 

 branches, and reflcx'd fo as to form a remarka- 

 ble hook or curl. The colour is a dark 

 green, if it grows in pure water, or out of 

 bogs ; but in muddy places is yellowifh or red- 

 brown. 



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