Br YUM 
BARBATUM 
Bearded Bryum. 
BRYUM Lin. Gen. PL Cryptogamia Musci. 
Anthera operculati. Calyptra laevis. Filamentum e tuborculo terminali ortum. 
Rail Syn. Gen. i. Musci. 
BRYUM barbatum antheris eredis oblongis barbatis, operculo acuminato obliquo, pedunculis lateralibus. 
BRYUM unguiculatum et barbatum tenuius et Rellatum. Dillen. Mufic. tab. 48. fig. 48. Small ftar- 
topped, clawed, and bearded Heads. 
DENSISSIMIS casfpitibus modo Bryi purpurei ad muros 
et aggeres nafeitur. Jig. 1 . 
CAULICULI i'emunciales aut paulo plus, ramofi, eredi, 
foliofi. Jig . 2, 3. 
FOLIA e luteo-viridia, denfa, lanceolata, acuta, infe- 
rioribus fuberedis, fupremis patentibus. Jig. 4. 
aud. 
PEDUNCULI femunciales et ultra, ex imo feu ex medio 
nunquam e fummitate furculi enati, fingu lares 
vel plures ex eodem furculo, rubentes, nitidi, 
flexuofi, bulbillo oblongo nudo fuperne rubro 
praediti. Jig . 5. 
CAPSULiE fuberedae, tenues, oblongae, acuminatae, oli- 
vaceae, nitidae. Jig. 6. Calyptra longa, acu- 
minata, parum obliqua. Jig. 7. Operculum 
longum, tenue. Jig. 8. Cilia aurantiacae, feu 
coccineae fpirae modo contortae. Jig. 9. 
¥ FORMS a thick turf on walls and banks, in the manner 
of the Bryum purpureum. Jig. 1. 
STALKS half an inch or fomewhat more in height, 
branched, upright, and leafy. Jig. 2, 3. 
¥ LEAVES of a yellowilh- green colour, growing thick 
I together, lanceolate, pointed, the lowermoft 
I nearly upright, the uppermoft fpreading ; Jig. 
.1 4. magnified. 
PEDUNCLES half an inch or more in length, pro- 
ceeding from the bottom or middle, but never 
I from the top of the furculus, one or feveral 
¥ from the fame furculus, red, fhining, crooked, 
I furnifhed at bottom with a naked oblong bulb, 
¥ red at top. Jig. 5. 
I CAPSULES nearly upright, {lender, oblong, pointed, 
¥ of an olive colour, and fhining. Jig. 6 . Calyp- 
1 tra long, pointed, a little oblique. Jig. 7. 
Operculum long, and Render, fig. 8. Cilia 
orange-coloured or fcarlet, twifted in the form 
of a ferew. fig. 9. 
The mofs here reprefented is undoubtedly the Bryum figured by Dillenius, in his forty-fifth plate, forty-eighth 
figure. Neither Linnaeus nor Mr. Hudson make mention of it. We are convinced^ however, from repeated 
obfervations, that it is a fpecies perfectly diftin£t. It approaches very near to the Bryum imberbe and unguiculatum . 
From the former it differs in having the Antherae or Capfules terminated by long twifted ciliae, and in having the 
peduncles always proceeding from the bafe of the furculus : this laft character alfo ftrikingly diftinguifhes it from 
the unguiculatum. 
It is not unfrequent about London , efpecially in the environs of Charlton , on walls, and barren hilly ground, 
with the Bryum purpureum and cafpititium , and produces its fructifications in December , January , and February. 
