76oi CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI. 



i'rom it on the other two. The nerve, or ceu- 

 , tral rib is of a red colour ; the frii6lification£ 

 like the preceding. Sec Fail. Paris, t. 29,/. 10. 

 ■ ■ • ts? 'D':llen. mufc. t. 40. /. 47. Bailer makes thin 

 a diftincl fpecies, and Weis a variety of H. ctif- 

 pidatum. Lin, - ' ■•'■ 



ripariuni2A. HYPNUM furculis teretibus ramofis, folii.<; acuti.? 

 patLilis diflantibus. Sp.pl. 1595. (Dilien. mufc. 

 t. 40./. 44.) '■-• - • ^•-•■ 



Water Flypnum. Ar.gUs. 



Upon the banks of rivers, and upon planks and 

 ftones about water-mills. III. IV. 



The ftalks arc from three to Hx inches long, 

 fibrous at the bafe, laxly branched, and without 

 order. The branches are long and cylindrical, 

 if growing out of the water, but pinnated if 

 floating under it. The leaves on t'le cylindri- 

 cal branches arc oval, acute, and denfely in'i- 

 bricated ; on the pinnated ones, under th.e wat<-r, 

 lanceolate, more acute, patent, and terminated 

 with a fharp hair-like point. Their colour is a 

 dark (liiiiino- oreen. 



The peduncles are fhort in proportion to the length 

 of the mcfs, being about an inch high, ered, 

 and of a fliining red colour. The capfules are 

 oval, tumid, inclin'd, at firll of a dark reddifli 

 brown colour, afterwards of a dull green. '1 he 

 epercukm IS conicnly Vv'ith a fliort point -, the ca- 

 ■_ rn, and young capfules, are ered ; the nm 

 '"--■ '^ ; the frudificadons are produced under 



the 



