766 CRYPTOGAMJA MUSCf. 



1 ]:e peduncles aie faffron colour'd, one and fortii'- 

 times two inches high, and .irile near the bale 

 of the branches, '1 lie caplulcs are oval, ob- 

 long, (lightly inclin'd, of a yellowifn brown 

 colour ; the operculum acutely conical •, the rim 

 ciliated. 



It varies v;ith branches not \o flender, but more 

 tumid in the middle, and capiV.lcs quite erev:t. 

 See Diilen t. 41./. ^o. 



Greater rvloufe-tail Hypnum. Anglls. 



gracile 21* HYPisUM furculis repencibus, ramis fafcicolatis 

 teretibus crediufculi?;, antheri'5 erciflis ovatis. 

 Ijn. jyfi.nat. edit. 13.^. 801. Hypnum cr;;'/^/?.. 

 poides. Hudf. Fl. Angi p. 430. ^Dillcn. mujc. /. 

 41,/. 55-) 



Bird's-foot Hypnum. Anglis. 



Upon trunks of trees, a/id on rocks as about 

 Arihurs Sea:, near Edinlurghy &c. Mr. 2'alden, 

 II. 



This greatly refembles the preceding in its habit 

 and manner of growth, but is rarely above two 

 inches long. The branches arife out of a creep- 

 ins: flalk, and are iub-divided each into a cluf- 

 rer of cylindrical, taper, incurved, fecondary 

 ' branches, more flender than thofe of the pre- 



ceding mofs. 



T he leaves are oval-lanceolate, acute, prefTed to 

 the llalk when dry, a little elevated when moill, 

 and of a yellowilh green colour. 



The 



