CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Phascum. 
1005 
sssal 
(E. Bot. 1491— Muse. Brit. xvi—Dill. 32. 3 and 47. 33. E.) 
Of a beautiful green colour. Capsules egg-shaped. Leaves strap-spear¬ 
shaped, pointing three ways. Neck. In a dense compact tuft, about a 
finger’s length, sometimes dividing in the middle into two or three 
branches. Leaves a splendid intense green, long, narrow-pointed, straight, 
stiff. (Mr. Griffith brought from Snowdon plants of S.alpinum } and placed 
them under a waterspout, where they soon became Bryum Jtexuosum. 
Its luxuriant growth in bogs accounts for its want of capsules. When 
this plant is moist, Mr. Griffith observes, the capsules lie concealed 
amongst the leaves by a singular hygrometric quality in the fruit-stalk; 
but as the moisture exhales, they become nearly upright by several 
spiral revolutions from right to left. In B. (Mnium) heteromallum the 
revolutions of the fruit-stalk are reversed. E.) . 
(Zigzag Bog-moss. Dicranum Jtexuosum. Hedw. Sm. Hook. Grev. Purt* $ 
also Bryum Jtexuosum. Linn. Huds. Lightf. Dicks. With, to Ed. vii. 
Turf bogs and wet rocks, on high moors, rare. Pentland Hills. Grev. Edin.' 
High ground in Ragley woods, Warwickshire. Purtou. E.) Bogs on 
Cader Idris, and Snowdon. Dillenius. But I have never found it there 
in fructification. Mr. Griffith. 
S. arbo'reum. Branched, creeping; capsules lateral, pointing one 
way. See Fontinalis secunda. 
( S . cuspidatum. E. Bot. 2392. Branches attenuated; leaves lanceolato- 
subulate, lax. Muse. Brit. iv. Hooker suspects it may prove only a var. 
of S. palustre. E.) 
PHAS'CUM. Capsule egg-shaped, furnished with a veil, but 
without a lid, or only an imperfect one which does not 
fall off. 
(1) Capsule sessile. 
P. acauTon. (Stemless : leaves egg-shaped, hair-pointed, concave, the 
upper ones folding over each other: capsule broad-oval. E.) 
Schreb. Phase. 1. 1 and 2— Curt. 276—(P. Bot. 2025— Muse. Brit. v. E.)— 
Dill. 32. 11— FI. Dan. 249. 3— Happ. ii. Phase. 1. a. — Neck. Meth. 1. 1, 
at p. 273, a veil magnified — Pet. i. 95. 14. 
A few lines in length, growing in clusters,, assuming rather a globular shape 
from the convergency of the leaves , which are rather broad, membra¬ 
nous, concave, soft, nerveless, green, delicate, ending in a short hair 
which is more conspicuous in the dry plant. Capsule little larger than 
the poppy seed, so concealed within the middlemost leaves as to be more 
readily felt than seen. Dill. Although there is no proper lid to the cap¬ 
sule it opens at the top. The veils incline to one side. 
(Sharp-leaved Dwarf Earth-moss. (P. cuspidatum. Hedw. Gmel. 
Sm. Hook. Grev. Purt. E.) Heaths and ditch banks, garden walls, 
especially in a sandy soil, not uncommon ; but on account of its minute¬ 
ness, and the leaves secreting the capsules, it is generally overlooked. 
A. March. 
P. mu'ticum. Stemless: leaves egg-shaped, concave, converging, not 
terminating in hairs. 
Schreb. Phase, 1. 11 and 12—(P. Bot, 2027. E.)— DHL 32. 12— Vaill, 27. 2. 
