
          This is truly an alpine plant. Wahlenberg observes justly that the
 portions of the stem above the earth appear perfectly simple, but that
 many of them really arise from a common root. Mr. Turner has well 
 remarked what is the case with few Mosses that the leaves do not change
 their direction by being more dry or by being moistened, & that their color,
 which is pale, & shining surface is very striking. 


 B. [Bryum] carneum. Stem short; Leaves lancolate, acute, serrulate at the points,
 reticulated, rather distant, nerve disappearing below the summit; capsule
 shortly pyriform, pendulous; lid conical. 
 Linn. Sp. Pl. [Linné, Species plantarum] Swartz. Turner Musc. Hib. [Muscologiae Hibernicae spicilegium] p. 119. Engl. Bot. [English Botany, v. 6] t. [plate] 360. Bryum
 delicatulum. Hedw. [Hedwig] St. Cr. v. 1, t. 30. Hypnum carneum. Mohr.
 B. [Bryum] pulchellum. Leaves approximated; capsule subglobose. Turner, Musc.
 Hib. [Muscologiae Hibernicae spicilegium] p. 119. B. [Bryum] pulchellum Hedw. [Hedwig] St. Cr. v. 3, t. 30.B.


 Stem rarely exceeding two or three lines in length. The leaves want
 the brighter green colors of its congeners. We have followed Mr. Turner
 in uniting to this species the B. [Bryum] pulchellum of Hedw. [Hedwig]. It is strange
 that Schwaegrichen should refer for his B. [Bryum] erythrocarpum to Mohr 
 who says he cannot distinguish it from B. [Bryum] carneum, & if we can
 judge from Schwaegrichen's figure we believe Mohr to be in the
 right, the figure differing principally by the larger size & the nerve
 of the leaf reaching to the points. 


 B. [Bryum] argentum. Stem short, branched; Leaves broadly ovate, suddenly acuminate,
 very concave, entire; nerve disappearing below the point; capsule
 oblongo-ovate, pendulous; lid conical.
 Linn. Sp. Pl. [Linné's Species plantarum] Hedw. Sp. Musc. [Hedwig, Species muscorum] Swartz, Turner, Musc. Hib. [Muscologiae Hibernicae spicilegium] p. 122. Engl. 
 Bot. [English Botany] t. [plate] 1602. Wahl. Fl. Lapp. [Wahlenberg, Flora Lapponica] Glypnum argenteum Mohr.

        