BARTRAMIA. 



from one to three inches in height, clothed and matted "to- 

 gether below with copious brown fibres. Leaves bright 

 green, (lender, gradually tapering from their bafe ; ftrongly 

 ierrated towards the point ; fomewhat twifted and curved 

 by drying. Fruit-Jlalks near the tops of the ftems, about 

 aa inch long, bright orange-red, (lightly wavy. Capfule 

 globofe, green and fmooth while young ; more elliptical 

 when ripe, oblique, brown, with fixteen furrows. Lid 

 rather convex, boffed. Fringe (hort, red. Veil conical, 

 curved, fplit half way up on one fide. 



4. B. crifpa. Frizzled Bartramia. Swartz Mnfc. Suec. 

 73. Turn, in Ann. of Bot. v. I. 527. Winch Guide 

 V. 2. 16. " Bridel. Mufc. v. 2. 3. t. i. f. 4. Schwagr. 

 Suppl. t. 59." Sm. Compend. n. 3. Engl. Bot. t. 1526. 

 (B. pomiforrtiis /S ; Turn, in Ann. of Bot. v. i. 527. Hook, 

 and Tayl. n. i, /3. ) — Fruit-ftalks ereft. Leaves briftle- 

 (haped ; dilated at the bafe ; incurved and curled when dry. 

 Lid (lightly conical. — Native of mountainous fituations in 

 Britain, and other parts of Europe. Larger in \x.% Jlems 

 and foliage than the preceding, the lea'oes of a lighter 

 brighter green, longer, and more (lender, except at the very 

 bafe, and when dry fo ftrongly curled, twifted, and involute, 

 as to give the plant a verj- different afpeft. The intelligent 

 authors of the Mufcologia Britannica neverthelefs judge this to 

 be but a variety of the pomiformis, and they unite it with Mr. 

 Turner's fuppofed variety of that fpecies, which he diftin- 

 guifiied from crifpa, and which he has thought to be figured 

 for crifpa, in Engl. Bot. t. 1526. We acknowledge that 

 figure to be not a very happy one, except the lid, which 

 Ceems to us always rather more conical than in pomi- 

 formis. 



5. B. ithyphylla. Straight-leaved Bartramia. Bridel. 

 Mufc. V. 4. 132. t. I. f. 6. Sm. Compend. n. 4. Engl. 

 Bot. t. 1 7 10. Winch Guide v. 2. 17. Hook, and Tayl. 

 n. 2. t. 23. — Fruit-ftalks elongated, ereft. Leaves capil- 

 lary, nearly entire, fingle-ribbed half way up ; dilated at 

 the bafe ; ftraight when dry. — Found on dry banks, in the 

 mountainous parts of Germany, Sweden, England, and 

 Wales. The long, very flender, light-green leaves are only 

 ferrated at the very point, and are remarkable for remaining 

 always ftraight when dry, which Mr. Hooker has well attri- 

 buted to the whole fubftance of the mid-rib being dilated 

 and loft in the upper half of the leaf, to which it confe- 

 quently gives firmnefs. The capfuhs are much curved ; their 



fialks longer than in the foregoing. The dilated bafe of 

 each leaf is (Ingularly membranous and (hining. 



6. B. gracilis. Tall Slender Bartramia. Florke in 

 Schrad. Joum. v. 2. 171. Fl. Brit. n. 3. Engl. Bot. 

 t. 1826. Hook, and Tayl. n. 3. (B. Oederi ; Schwaegr. 

 Suppl. t. 59, as alfo, according to Mr. Hooker, B. grandi- 

 flora, t. 58. Bryum Oederi; Retz. Prodr. 261. Fl. Dan. 

 t. 478-) — Fruit-ftalks from lateral branches, taller than the 

 ftems. Leaves lanceolate, ferrated towards the point ; re- 

 curved and twifted when dry. — Native of the loftieft Scottiih 

 mountains, as well as of the north of Europe. "Yht flems 

 are two or three inches high. Leaves broader than in any 

 of the three preceding fpecies, fomewhat revolute at the 

 margin, efpecially when dry, in which ftate they become 

 recurved, and not curled inwards. Their colour is a darki(h 

 grafs-green. Capfuhs fmall, from (hort lateral (hoots. 



■j.^). fquarrofa. Spreading-leaved Bartramia. Turn, in 

 Ann. of Bot. V. I. 528. t. II. f. 2 — Fruit-ftalks lateral, 

 taller than the ftems. Leaves awl-ftiaped, entire ; fmgle- 

 ribbed at the bafe ; fpreading and ftraight when dry. — 

 Received from Java by Mr. iSckfon. Gathered by Com- 

 r/ierfor!, at the ftraits of Magellan. The tufted leafy 



Vol. XXXIX. 



Jlems, (haggy with rufty fibres, and fcarcely branched, are 

 two or three inches high. Leaves flender, yellowifti-jn-ee.n, 

 longer than any of the preceding, except perhaps B. Hal- 

 krmna, and always quite ftraight, probably from the fame 

 caule as m tthyphylla, the rib being foon loll in the fubftarce 

 ot the leaf. Fruit-Jlalks ftraight, ereft. Capfuk cur/ed, 

 Itrongly furrowed. Lid convex, blunt. 



B. B. Men%iefti. Tall Forked Bartramia. Turn. ibid. 

 525- t. 1 1, f. I.— Fruit-ftalks (lightly elevated above the tall 

 forked ftems. Leaves lanceolate, fingle-ribbed, taper- 

 pointed, entire; clofe-prelfed when dr^-. Capfule nearly 



globular, with ftiallow furrows Gathered on the north- 



weft coaft of America, by Mr. Menzies. The tall flender 

 Jlenu, covered with clofe-prelfed, tawny, (hining leaves, half 

 the length of the laft, cleariy diftinguilh this fpecies. The 

 ccpfules are fcarcely curved, even when fully ripe, and their 

 furface is wrinkled as well as finely furrowed. 



9. B. fpherocarpa. Globofe Bartramia. Hedw. Crypt. 

 ^■; 3- 93- t- 38 A. Turn, as above, 525. (Mnium fphae- 

 ricarpon; Swartz Prodr. 139, from the author.) Fruit- 

 ftalks taller than the flender cluftered branches. Leaves 



lanceolate-awlftiaped, clofe-prefled, finely ferrated. Native 



of Jamaica. S'wart%. The flender flems are determinately 

 branched, as in the following, to which this fpecies is very 

 nearly allied, though fmaller, with longer branches. In the 

 leaves, though ufually narrower, we fcarcely find a perma- 

 nent difference. Hedwig's figiure erroneoufly omits the 

 furrows of the capfule. 



10. B. marchica. Narrow-leaved Bog Bartramia. Web. 

 and Mohr Ind. 5. Sm. Compend. n. 7. Engl. Bot. t. 2074. 

 (B. fontana B ; Hook, and Tayl. n. 4. Turn. Mufc. Hib. 



107. t. 10. f. I. Mnium marchicum ; Hedw. Cr)-pt. v. 2. 



108. t. 39.) — Fruit-ftalks elongated, much taller than the 

 cluftered branches. Leaves lanceolate, finely ferrated at the 

 point, clofe-prelTed. — Native of wet fituations in Germany, 

 the Highlands of Scotland, and the mountains of Nepaul, 

 for Mr. Hooker allures us his B. fontana, Tr. of Linn. Soc. 

 V. 9. 3 1 7, is this plant. He is alfo of opinion that B. 

 marchica is merely a lanceolate-leaved variety of the fol- 

 lowing. 



11. ^.fontana. Broad-leaved Fountain Bartramia. Fl. 

 Brit. n. 4. Turn. Mufc. Hib. 107. Hook, and Tayl. n. 4. 

 t. 23. (Mnium fontanom ; Linn. Sp. PI. 1574. Hedw. 

 Sp. Mufc. 195. Bryum fontanum ; Engl. Bot. t. 350. B. 

 paluftre, fcapis teretibus fteHatis, capfuhs magnis fubro- 

 tundis ; Dill. Mufc. 340. t. 44. f. 2.) — Fruit-ftalks elon- 

 gated, much taller than the cluftered branches. Leaves 

 ovate, finely ferrated at the point, clofe-preffed. — Native of 

 fpong)' bogs throughout Europe, and perhaps in other 

 parts of the world. It is one of our handfomeft and largeft 

 moffes, bearing capfules in fpring and fummer. The barren 



Jloiuers form terminal leafy ftars, on a feparate plant from 

 the capfules, whofe ftalks are two or three inches long, 

 rifing high above the tuft of leafy branches, which have 

 overtopped the originally terminal fituation of then flowers. 

 Capfule brown, with a minute /harp beak to the hd. Leaves 

 ufuaUy direft, broadly ovate, entire at the edges, the point 

 only being ferrated. They appear at (irft fight very dif- 

 ferent from the lanceolate narrow (hape of the laft, and ftill 

 more from the curved taper-points of Mr. Hooker's B.fal- 

 caia, Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 9. 317. t. 27. f. 4, which he is 

 difpofed to reduce to the fontana, having found the latter in 

 Switzerland with leaves as decidedly curved. We cannot 

 difpute his accuracy of obfenation and judgment in this 

 point ; nor are we much difpofed to queftion his further 

 opinion, that Hedwig's fpherciarpa, otir n. 9, as well z% 

 3 B fiahrida 



