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Musct1 Exoricy. 
TAYLORIA SPLACHNOIDES, 
Gen. Cuar. Perist. simplex, e dentibus 32 longissimis 
-tortuosis per paria approximatis. Capsula apophysata. 
Tayloria splachnoides. (Tas. CLXXIII. 
Tayloria splachnoides. Hook. in Journ. of Science 
and the Aris, No. 3. p.144 
Hookeria splachnoides. Schwaegr. Suppl.v.2.p.340.t.C. 
Has. Prope Rollvag, Tind, Tellemarkis, in Norvegia. D. Prof. 
Schmidt, Rupibus madidis in monte Grimsel dicto et prope 
Glacier du Rhéne Helvetiz, altit. 5000 ped. 1814. Helvetia. 
Schleicher, Seringe. In Tyroli australi. D. Lehmann. In 
summis alpibus Carinthianis. D. Prof. Hornschuch. 
Caules plerumque cespitosi, unciales, subsimplices, inferne fer- 
rugineo-tomentosi. Folia imbricata, erecto-patula, ovato- 
lanceolata, apice magis minusve obtusa atque serrata, laxe 
reticulata, luteo-viridia, nervo infra apicem evanescente in- 
structa. Se/a biuncialis, aurantiaca, nitida. Capsula oblongo- 
cylindracea, primum viridis, demum flavescens, apophysi cap- 
sula longiore sed angustiore basi attenuata insidens. Oper- 
culum conico-acuminatum, longitudine fere capsule. Colu- 
mella capsule longitudi excedens, filiformis, apice capitata. 
Peristomium simplex, e dentibus 82 infra marginem affixis, 
per paria approximatis, longissime attenuatis, tortuosis, rubris, 
transversim striatis, madore arcte involutis, demum valde mo- 
bilibus, vermicularibus, siccitate reflexis. - 
In the year 1816 I dedicated this new genus of mosses to my 
friend Dr. Taylor in the third number of Brande’s Journal of 
Science and the Arts, and there gave a complete history of the 
plant. In the same year it was published, under the already 
eccupied name of Hookeria, in Schwaegrichen’s Supplement to 
Hedwig’s Species Muscorum. That of Tayloria will, therefore, 
I trust, remain; and it is very much with the view of giving it 
greater publicity that I again represent it here. Nothing can be 
more curious than to see the teeth of this moss writhing about on 
the application of warmth to a specimen already saturated with 
moisture. They are admirably described by Schwaegrichen, when 
he says, ‘ Dentes madore contorti, et thee margine appressi, 
siccitate diffusi, halitu observantis tacti singuli spiraliter sed laxe 
se contorquentes et rursus evolventes, semina dispergentes, con- 
tinuo tremuli et mobiles, simili qaodam motu ut fila Equiseti 
germen cingentia.” 
Fig. 1, tuft of plants, maé. size. Fig. 2, single plant. Fig. 3, 3, 
leaves. Fig. 4, apex of do. Fig. 5, capsule with the teeth in- 
volute as seen when moist. Fig. 6 and 7, teeth variously twisted. 
Fig. 8, operculum. Fig. 9, columella; the capsule and part of 
the inner membrane being removed.—magn. 
