YPNUM SERICEUM. SlLKY HyPNUM, 



HYPNUM Linna'l Gen. PL Chyptogamia Musci. 



Anther a operculata. Calyptra levis. Vilamentum laterale ortum e perichgetio» 

 Raii Syn. Gen. 3. Musci. 



HYPNUM fericeum furculo repente, ramis confertis eredis, foliis fubulatis, antherls eredis. Lin. Syfi, 

 Vegetal* p. 801. Sp. PL p* 1595. PL Suecic. n. 1036. 



HYPNUM fericeum. Scopoli. PL CarnioL p. 340, 



HYPNUM ramis teretibus ; foliis pilo praepilatis ; capfulis cylindricis, eredis, ariftatis. Haller. hifii n. 1 750. 



HYPNUM vulgare fericeum recurvum, capfulis eredis cufpidatis. Dillen, Mufc. 323. A 42. fi $y. 



MUSCUS terreftris luteo-viridans fericeus repens. Moris* hijl. 3.^. 626. f. 15. /. 5. fig* 25, 



MUSCUS arboreus fplendens fericeus, Valll. Paris. 132* t. 27. fig* 3. 



HYPNUM repens trichoides terreftre luteo virens vulgare majus, capitulis eredis* Rail Syn. p. 84, 

 Hudfon. FL Angl. ed. 1. ■p. 428. 

 JuightfooU FL Scot, v, 2. p. 762. 



CAULES live viticuli longi, repentes, fibrillis copiofis, ¥ STALKS, or moots, long, creeping, adhering by nu- 



tomentofis adhaerentes, valde ramofi, in den- I merous fmall, woolly fibres, very much 



fos csefpites congefti, ramis creberrimis, fur- $ branched, and forming clofe tufts ; branches 



redis, brevibus, fubteretibus, inficcitate in- | numerous, upright, ihort, and roundifh ; 



curvis, fig. 1, tadu rigidis, in humiditate y when dry, bending down at top, and fome.- 



redis moliibus. , | what ftiff, fig. 1 ;°wheii moift, upright and 



I foft. 



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FOLIA ovato-lanceolata, fig. 2, in pilum longum | LEAVES oval and pointed, fig. 2, terminating in a 



terminata, denfiffime imbricata ; in liccitate f longhair, lying clofelv one over the other, 



appreffa, capillaria ; humida latiora, patula, | when dry prefled together, and very fine ; 



ex obfcuro viridia, cum fericeo fplendore ad | when moift broader, and more fpreading, of 



luteum vergente, f a dullifh green, inclining to yellow, with a 



I mining filky appearance. 



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PEDUNCULI femunciales, unciales, purpurea, pe- f FOOT-STALKS an inch and a half or an inch long, 



richastio fquamofo cindas, fig. 3, confertas, | purple, at bottom covered with a fcaly peri- 



circa medium furculi ortas. ¥ chastium, fig. 3, arifing from about the mid- 



| die of the moots. 



CAPSULE oblongee, teretes, eredas, inferne paulu- | CAPSULES oblong, round, upright, fomewhat en- 



lum incraffatae, ex livido fufcag, fig. 6, 7, | larged at bottom, of a livid brown colour,-' 



per medium difcifla, fig. 10. % fig. 6, 7 ; cut down the middle at figi 10. 



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CALYPTRA pallida. f CALYPTRA pale brown, 



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OPERCULUM breve, roftratum, miniatum, fig. 8. | OPERCULUM Ihort, ending in a beak of a bright 



% red colour, fig, 8. 

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CILIiE albidae, eredas, una tantum ferieSj fig. 9. 1 CILLE or hairs whitifh, upright, and one row only, 



¥ M 9- 



THE Hypnum fericeum is one of our moil common, as well as one of our earlieft MoJJes, producing its 

 Capfules from September to February. 



It generally puts forth its frudifications in the greater!: plenty, on the tops of old walls. It creeps alfo 

 on the ground, as well as on the trunks of trees. 



None of our MoJJes afford a more beautiful carpet ; it frequently exhibits all the richnefs and foftnefs of 

 filk, particularly when dry. But thofe patches of it, which put on this yellow and mining appearance, by 

 which it is fo readily diftinguimed, do not always produce frudifications in the greater!: abundance. 



It may be diftinguimed from the Hypnum rutabuium, which often occurs with it, by having longer and more 

 upright Capfules. 



Dillenius has defcribed this Mofs with his ufual accuracy, which is modernized, and fomewhat im- 

 proved by Weis, from whom our defcription is almoft literally taken. 



