CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Phascum. 
1007 
Barren shoots undivided, threadi-shaped, fully half an inch high. Leaves 
very short, awl-shaped, alternate, rather bulging at the base, expanding 
at the ends. Fertile shoots undivided, one-eighth of an inch high. Leaves 
awl-bristle-shaped, as long again as the capsule. Capsule, one at the end 
of each shoot, single, sessile, buried in the leaves, inversely egg-shaped, 
pale yellow. Dicks. 
Alternate-leaved Earth-moss. Bogs. Camlingay Bogs, Cambridge¬ 
shire. Mr. Griffith. April. 
(2) Capsule on a fruit-stalk. 
P. curvicol'luai. Stemless : fruit-stalks crooked : leaves spear-shaped, 
taper-pointed, expanding. 
Dicks. 1. 3— Hedw. Stirp. i. 11— (Hook. FI. Lond. 54— Muse. Brit. v.— 
E. Bot. 905. E.) 
Plant extremely minute, hardly visible to the naked eye, unless growing in 
clusters and bearing its swollen capsules. Involucrum, leaves straight, 
strap-spear-shaped ; the other leaves egg-spear-shaped. Fruit-stalks 
very much bowed. Capsules egg-shaped, brown and mottled when ripe. 
Veil very small. Lid with a short beak. Often mixed with Bryum ar~ 
genteum. Ripens in May. Hedw. Leaves mid-ribbed, as Jong as the 
fruit-stalk. 
Crooked-stalked Earth-moss. In barren grassy places near Croydon. 
Dickson. (On banks near Clapham, Bedfordshire. Near Findon, Sus¬ 
sex; and Beverley, Yorkshire. Bot. Guide. E.) 
P. pilif'erum. With a stem : leaves egg-oblong, upright, hair-point¬ 
ed : (capsule globose, upright. E.) 
Schreh. Phase. 1.6 10—(P. Bot. 1888. E.) 
(This plant is remarkable for it hoary appearance occasioned by the long 
white filiform extremities of the leaves , which are generally short and 
obtuse. E.) 
(Bearded Earth-moss. P.cuspidatum , var. Muse. Brit. P. acaulon of 
With. April. E.) 
P. axilla're. With a stem : capsules not taller than the leaves: 
leaves awl-shaped, keeled, somewhat fasciculated. 
Hedw. Stirp. i. 34— Dicks. 1. 3.— (E. Bot. 1036— Muse. Brit. v. E.) 
Exceedingly small; about one-eighth of an inch high, upright, sometimes 
sending out one or two branches at the base. Leaves , slender, bristle¬ 
shaped, surrounding the stems and rising above the ends. Capsules, 
egg-shaped, taper-pointed, on short fruit-stalks, sometimes from the 
sides of the stem and bosom of the leaves, but mostly terminal, solitary, or 
in pairs, naked or distinct, though the leaves extend beyond them; when 
ripe brownish. Dicks. 
Lateral-fruited Earth-moss. P. axillare. Dicks, i. 2. Sm. Hook. 
Grev. P. nitidum. Hedw. With, to Ed. vii. By Hooker identified also 
with Dickson’s P. strictum , though somewhat different to the fig. 
E. Bot. 2093. E.) Bogs on heaths. Sept. 
P. rec'tum. Stemless: fruit-stalk thrice the length of the leaves: 
leaves spear-shaped, mid-ribbed, fine-pointed. 
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