Hypnum purum Meadow Hypnum. 
HYPNUM Lin. Gen. Pl, Cryptogamia Musci. 
Jnihera operculata, Calyptra laevis, Fihmeniurn laterale ortum e perlch^tio. 
Pali Syn.Gen. 3. Musci. 
HYPNUM puru/n furculis pinnato-fparfis fubulatis, foliis ovatis obtufis connlventibus. Lm. Syjl. Vegetah, 
p. 108. Sp* Pl. 1594. F/. 1031. 
HYPNUM ramis teretibus, foliis ovato lanceolatis, fetis prslongis, capfulis inclinatis, anftatis. 
HYPNUM Scopoli FI. Carniol. n. 1326. 
HYPNUM 'cuprefriforme vulgare, foliis obtufis. Dillen mufc. p. 309 Jig. 45 • 
MUSCUS fquamofus cuprefTiformis. Vaillant Bot. pari/, p. 138. 11. 15. ^ab. 28. f. 3. 
HYPNUM terreftre ereftum, ramulis teretibus, follis inter rotunda et acuta medio modo fe habentibus. 
Rail. Syn. 81. 
Hudfon. FI. Jfigl ed. 2 . p. soSf. 
LightfoctFl. Scot.p. 753. 
CAULES teretrafculi, fuberefti, fimplices feu ramofi, 
rquamoE, nitentes, apicibus plerrumque cral- 
floribus. , - 1 
RAMULI piimato-fparE, teretiufculi, fubulati, plerum- 
que recurvi. 
FOLIA ovata, obtufa, mucronata, convexo concava, 
tenera, nitida, denfe- imbricata, adprefla, pal- 
lide virentia Jig. i. auSi, 
PEDUNCULI nobifcum non raro occurunt menfe 
Novembri, unciales et biunciales, erefti, infer- 
ne ruberrimi, fupern? flavefcentes, parum 
Hexuofi, nitidi. 
PERICH^TIUM oblongum, fquamofura, Iquamas 
erea«, lanceoktas, adprefik. 2. 
CAPSULiE adultas fubovat®, parum nutantes ; Jig. 
e 8 Calyptra membranacea, laevis, pnmo 
emda Jig. 4. cito caduca/^. 3. Operculum breve, 
conicum, Jig. 6. 7 ; Cilia, extern* plunm*, 
fetaceae, rigidui*, rufefcentes; intern* mem- 
brana connex*, apice convergentes ; Pullen 
feu tSewiew vlrefcens. j%. IQ. 
STALKS roundifh, fomewhat upright, fimple or 
branched, fcaly, fhinlng, the tops generally 
thicken’d. 
SMALL BRANCHES numerous, irregularly pinnated, 
tapering, generally bent back. 
LEAVES ovate, obtufe, but terminated by a fhort point 
or awn, convex 011 one hde and concave on 
the other, tender, fhining, numerous, laying 
clofely one over the other, of a pale green 
colour. Jig. I. magnif. 
PEDUNCLES not unfrequent with us in the month 
of November are from one to two inches in 
length, upright, below of a bright red colour, 
above yellowifh, a little crooked and fhining. 
PERICH^TIUM oblong, fcaly, fcales upright, lan- 
ceolate and prefs’d to the bulb. fg. 2. 
CAPSULES when full grown are fomewhat ovate, and 
a little nodding/^ .5.8. Calyptra membranous, 
fmooth, at firft upright Jig. 4. foon falling off 
Jig. 2 ; Operculum Ihort and conical fg. 6. 7 ; 
the outer Cilia numerous, tapering, fome- 
what rigid and of a reddifh brown colour, the 
the internal ones connefled by a membrane, 
and converging to a point ; Pollen or feed of a 
greenifh colour, fg. 10. 
„ — rr confidered as producing Its Frualficatlons but fparingly, yet If It be examined 
THE l ■ in the month of November, the period of its greateft perfeftion, it will not be 
L‘nd itthif rltaT- ^ 
diange to a yellower hue than moft others. 
1 nf rbf» Calvutra beloncing to this mofs, from whence it would appear that like 
Dillenius m^es no me^nt C jp general thofe Capfules which have a fhort Operculum 
aCrfburn lktle thile, as in the prefent planl while thofe in which the operculum .s long bear it 
Sto the felling off of the operculum itfelf asin the Srjum unduUt.m. 
-C ■ • f rb, moA ireneral Moffes we have, growing in woods, in pafturcs and by hedge fides uniyerfally, in 
This re one of the moft gener 1 ^ the oak of HouourWood and the woods adjoining pro- 
the mentioned in the greateft plenty ; being a mofs generally free from all impuri- 
deflf “made rfl of by the anglers in Lancaftiire and probably in other counties to fcour their worms m. mi. 
hif. muje. p. 310. 
