Cry pi oga m ia* ITS 
heaths, banlcs, and walks, especially in a sandy soil, a- 
bundant. 
Gymnostomum. Gen. char .*-*** Capsule with a naked 
mouth, and deciduous lip ; entire calyptra separating 
from the base. 
Gymnost. Truncatulum, Little Blunt-footed Beard* 
less Moss ; with ovate, pointed, plain, entire leaves, 
and turban-shaped truncated capsule. In pastures, 
banks, and by the sides of ditches. 
Gymnost. Ovatum, Hairy-leaved Beardless Moss ; 
with ovate, obtuse, very entire, concave, awned leaves, 
and ovate capsule ; on banks and mud walls. 
Gymnost. Pyriforme, Pointed Pear-shaped Beard- 
less Moss ; with very simple and very short stem 5 
leaves ovate, acute, slightly toothed 5 capsule obovate, 
and lid bluntly dagger-shaped. On banks and wet 
heaths. 
Sect. II. With a Simple Fringe. 
Splachnum. Gen. char. — -Capsule cylindrical, set 
upon a fleshy process ; fringe simple, with sixteen 
teeth approaching by pairs. 
Splach. Mnioides, Green Tapering Gland-moss 
-with the process obconical, green, and leaves elliptical, 
lance-shaped, entire, awned. In moist places of ele- 
vated districts. 
Splach. Ampullaceum , Purple Gland-moss ; with 
greenish, purple, obconical, blunt process, three times 
thicker than tRS* capsule ; leaves lance shaped, acute, 
serrated. la marshy bogs and moist heaths. 
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