1010 CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Buxbaumia. 
Shoois five to seven inches long. Branches sometimes divided. Involucrum 
long, from the bosom of the leaves., chiefly where branches arise ; out of 
these come forth Capsules green, small, egg-shaped. Dill. 
Hair-like Water-moss. Mountain rivulets in Scotland. 
F. alpi'na. Capsules lateral: leaves mostly pointing one way, ellip¬ 
tical, bluntish, those of the involucrum spear-shaped, pointed. 
Dicks, ii. 2. 
Dicks, ii. 4. 1. 
Leaves short, twisted when dry, somewhat curled. Capsule , together with 
the involucrum, thrice as large as the leaves. Dicks. ( Fringe simple, its 
fibres twisted. Br. Fruit-stalk nearly as long as the capsule. Foliage 
black when dried. E.) 
Alpine Water-moss. On rocks and stones in the alpine rivulets of 
Scotland. On stones in Balalake, and rivulets about Llanberris, also 
in many small rivulets about Garn, Denbighshire ; river Clwyd not ten 
yards above high water mark, in plenty: so that it is not exclusively 
alpine. Mr. Griffith. (On large stones on the side of Loch Tay which 
are occasionally under water. Mr. Brown. Aug. E.) 
F. secun'da. Branched, creeping: capsules leaning one way: leaves 
egg-shaped, taper-pointed, tiled. 
Jledw. Stirp. 3. 15—(E. Bot. 1180— Muse. Brit. xxii. E.)— Dill. 32. 6 — 
Fail/. 27. 17. 
Deep green. Branches sometimes subdivided. Leaves short, numerous, 
triangular, concave. Capsules oblong, on very short fruit-stalks, on 
every part of the stem, pointing one way, nearly enclosed by an involu¬ 
crum of narrow leafits, ending in hairs, very numerous. Lid spit-pointed, 
brown. Dill. An inch high, stiff, but not upright, more or less branched 
at the base. 
(Lateral Water-moss. E.) Neckera heteromalla. Hedw. Hypnum 
heteroviallum. Gmel. Sphagnum arboreum. Hods. ( Phascum repens. 
With, to Ed. vii. Daltonia heteromalla. Muse. Brit. E.) On trees in 
orchards. (On apple trees in Cornwall. Mr. Stackhouse. On the root 
of a tree in a thicket at Alcester mill, Warwickshire. Purton. Trees 
near Forfar. Hooker. E.) P. Dec.—Feb. 
BUXBAU'M EA. # Capsule on a fruit-stalk: outer fringe with 
sixteen teeth ; inner membranous, plaited. 
Barr. FI. bud circular. 
B. folio'sa. Stemless: capsules nearly sessile, surrounded with leaves. 
Dicks. II. S. — {Hook. FI. Loud. — E. Bot. 329— Muse. Brit. viii. E.)— 
Schmid. Buxb. 2, lower part of the plate, consisting of the figures distin¬ 
guished by Roman numerals — Hal. Enum. 3. 3, at p. 109 ; Hist. 46. 3, at 
iii. p. 56— Dill. 32. 13— FI. Dan. 249. 1 — Happ. ii. Phascum 1, the central 
plant — Hal. It. Helv. 2. 3, in Opusc. p. 308. 
Leaves of the involucrum awned. Willd. Leaves, the lowermost open, 
oblong, the uppermost upright, spear-shaped, taper-pointed. Capsule 
sessile. Huds. 466. 
* (Named by Linnaeus in honour of Dr. Buxbaum, a German, author of an Enu¬ 
meration of the Plants around Hal,” and other works. E.) 
