CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI. 757 



In woods about the roots of trees, and in molft 

 pafturcs. Xil-Ili. 



The root is an horizontal fibre, curved with fer- 

 ruginous down ; from which arifcs a perpendi- 

 cular naked ftem, two or three inches high, ter- 

 minated v;ith a clufter of cylindrical^ and, for 

 the moft parr, fimple^ fmooth, pointed, and 

 nearly ereft branches, which gives this mofs the 

 appearance of a tree in miniature. 



The leaves are oval-lanceolate, acute, upright, 

 flat, denfely and clofely imbricated, and of a 

 yellowifli green fliining colour. 



I'he ftem above-mentioned is of a dark red co- 

 lour, imbricated with brown faded fcalcs ; and 

 by the fides of it, arifmg from the lame root, 

 ■^ < are often to be feen young, perpendicular fpikes 

 • • or fhoots, which arc the rudiments of future 

 flalks and branches, and which, in procefs of 

 time, expand themfelves. 



The peduncles are rarely to be found, bur, when 

 they are, they arife copioufly from the bafe of 

 • '— i"i» ^'-' - the branches:, about an inch high, ereA, and 

 of a red colour, bearing oblong, erecTt, fiender 

 red capfules, having each a iliort, conical oper- 

 culum^ terminated with a point or beard. The 

 -«"r ,:.i :.i Crt/y^/r^j is ftraw-colour'd i the rim ciliated. 



elopecurum HYPNUM furculo ereiflo, ramis fafciculatis tcr- 

 22, minalibus fubdivifis, anthcris fubnutandbus. 



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Paris, r. 23./. 5, Dillen. mufc- L 41./. 49. opl ) 



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