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altered in the earth till they decay, as may be feen in the 
Horfe-chefnut and Garden Naflurtium or Tropcolum. What- 
in a claffification founded on the 
organs in queftion, the diftin@ion between aa — 
with two cotyledons and thofe = have only o none, 
is, to all intents and purpofes of arrangement or ie ologys 
more abfolute = decifive than aay other general character 
hitherto yee 
ICRAN 
2. gl. t. 8. 
ae Mufc. 
- Bryi Monit et Hypni Loge ane Linn. ) ‘Ciafs ae or- 
’ Fringe a cen flat cloven 
steeth, a little inflex 
The Hedwigian ‘Gien of moffes, by taking into confide- 
‘ration the -ftructure of their fringe or peri/fomium, has very 
happily feparated from thofe which have a double fringe, fuch 
and is in no refpeét more happy 
the number and ftruc- 
f way down, si Sel and 
; for there are {carcely two or 
generic character. 
the oe (henge ium hg a 
co 
mult be the fas Stich cancel foals feveral that are 
e fhall not bewilder the reader in this la- 
merous figures we could not extri ricate him e 
only a view . = leading features of this genus, and of its 
principal fpeci 
The ufual habit of a Dicranum is marked by ea 
given by 
€ 
together from ter 
= 
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of his fpecies, any more than Fabricius could examine — 
organs of the mouth in a fiftieth part of his infe&ts. of 
them muft, after all, have frequently trufted to habit, ore 
configuration, or to the more obvious Linnzan princip'es. 
Th e&tion of Dicranum in the Species Mufcorum of 
Hedwig, has the capfule without any apsphy/is or pedeftal, 
the fruit-ftalks = and the leaves curved to one fide. 
Of this the chief are D. /coparium, su t. 354 come 
ot. 
mon on heaths and . wood Tare = m pas » 1409, 
found on rocks by the fea near Baar ; ommon but 
elegant little D. Seteromailum, t. 1272, oa ales a green 
. velvet carpet on the fhady paths of woods on a gravelly or 
fandy foil. 
d feétion has leaves lefs accurately oe to one 
fide, in which we find Tigre 
Jatter feems 
lare alfo ranges 
here, aoe ae are broader and more obtufe than in moft 
of the gen 
The 3d eon has leaves fpreading every way, and no 
curled by drying ; their tips without hairs. To this pees 
. purpureum, abunda nt on walls and gravelly hills, (where 
its are confpicuous in the fpring ; 
as well as feveral ones Ruosen or American {pecies partly 
akin to it. 
The 4th has {preading leaves with hair-like points, as D. 
latifolium, aN ile ae a native of North areata 
er Linrzus, and by 
ickfon to the 
to Hea, oe pclebystes i pa and the donor i in vib 
rms. 
SeGtion sth has a leaves, becoming curled o 
ay when a The chief of thefe i is the es i rare 
tire. It i hi in Hledw. rypt. sabe and was 
thus named on account of its ph Seales being thofe of a 
Fiffidens, gemini: though the habit is that of a ot 
Dicranum. The teeth of the fin e are fome of them oc- 
cafionally three-cleft. = bait or another Fifiden OE 
Hedwig, Cry . bkewife ranges her 
In feGion Oth the feuig thalks are incuived, ae capfule, 
as before, Plait it an apophyfis. Amo ich are D, 
flexuofum, E t.t. 1491, (Bryum flexuofem of Lin 
nzus, ) ane in weer {tations ; 
D. as Hedw. Sp. t. 
7th has an <pophf or gland-like bats is the 
Bo 
the elegant bie Tadian 
hofe f{pecies which compofe the genus Fiffidens of Hedwi g enti €, as D. cer a Engl. 661, found on 
ehiefly having two-ranked compreffed and dilated foliage. turfy heaths in Englan oo and ue a 
In thefe the Ende ower is often lateral, but in the bulk very elegant title ae Celfi, H Sp. t. 
of the genus terminal, fruit-ftalk becoming lateral incon- (Bryum Celfii of Lisneas,) found in Sweden and = 
asa ss ) tubfequent extenfion of the ftem be- a in Scotland. 
yon capfule is often {mooth, in fome inftances 
diay inomed longitudinally. Lid various in length. 
Teeth hee vetde very red, ftrongly furrowed tranf- 
hefe feGtions not being altogether natural, nor always 
eafy to define, they have not been attended to in the Flora 
but 
difpofed m perfe 
curacy, for fuch muft be the fruit of Sine. er repeated en= 
qu ulries. 
The 8th fe&ion of this genus, the Fern Fork-Mofics, 
reading in two ranks; and thefe form a very natural and 
beautiful family. he chief are ; viridulum, Engl. Bot 
1368, the fo much a oo viridulum of Linneus, 
t. 16623 D. nawifolum. 
moult fhady places, old penned &c. ; and the larger more 
§ con. 
