SPLACHNUM. 273 
Lichen, capillaceo folio, elatior, pelvi ruber- 
rima. Tourn. inft. p. 550. 
Anglice: Whee1er's Bongrace Mofs. 
Habitat in Norvegia ad Portsgrund; Rich. Whee- 
ler. In Sibiria omni ; Gmelinus. In Finlandia 
prope Aboam; Argillander. - Locis turfofis, 
humidis, umbrofis. 
WHEELER Rich. primae hujus Mufci in- 
ventionis gloria tribuenda, qui anno 1695. i!!um 
ad Portsground in Norvegia le&um cum Jacobo 
PETIVERO communicavit. Clariflimus hlc Bo- 
tanicus ejusmodi raram plantam e tenebris pro- 
trac^am, quae Mufeum fuum, petiverianum dictum, 
intraret, dignam reputavit; ubi etiam pag. II. n.jo. 
t. I. f. 70. occurrit fub nomine MUSCI Norvegici, 
umbraculo ruberrimo infigniti; We owe tbe difco- 
very of this elegant Plant to my kind Friend Mr. 
Richard Wheeler , who gatherd it near Portsground 
in Norway , and for its fingularity and likenefs , I think 
it may not very improperly be called his Norway Bon- 
grace Mofs. Huic etjam iconcm primam , parum 
tamen bonam addidit, qua? folia anguftiora, pe- 
dunculum longiorem & curvum , umbraculum craf- 
fius & plicatum, vafculum turbinatum minusque, 
quam revera eft, repraefentat. Petiverum a fingu- 
lari ftructura deceptum, fungum e fummitate cu- 
jusdam Mufci enatum, pro Mufco habuiife, pluri- 
mis perfuafit manca illa hiftoria. 
PLUKENETIUS acccptum a Petivero anno 
1696. in Almagefto, pag. 246. fequentibus proponic 
verbis : MUSCUS aureus capillaris roinor norve- 
Tom. II. S gicus, 
