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the capfules or anthers are cylindrical, bent 
inward, and if magnified they appear forp£- 
what ftriated. Their colour is firft green, then 
livid brown, and laftly of a reddifh brown 
colour. The bottom of the operculum, or 
lid, is convex and red; the top paler, very 
flender, and rather blunt ; the mouth of the 
capfule is fringed, and the fringe bent in- 
ward ; the ring is red, and the powder, which 
hTues from the capfule, be it feed or anther* 
duft, is green. Hedwig has obferved, that 
this fringe of the capfule in dry weather 
expands, and leaves the mouth of it open ; 
but on the leafl moifture, even of the breath, 
it clofes again. He remarks, the ring of the 
capfule of fome fpecies is elaftic ; and, when 
the feed is ripe, throws off the veil with more 
or lefs force ; and it is after this veil, or ca- 
lyptre, is gone, that the fringe ferves to protect 
the precious contents of the capfule. The 
calyptre in bry'um undulatum is of a pale 
brown colour, terminating in a long point, 
firft upright, but afterwards, on the bending 
of the capfule, it burfts at the bottom, and 
remains ftraight, with it's bafe at fome little 
diftance from the capfule *< 
* A plate is given of the different parts of morTes for thole 
who have not the advantage of confulting Mr.Curtis's London 
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