CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Splachnum. 1011 
(Leafy Buxbaumia. E.) Phascum montanum. Huds. P. maximum . 
Lightf. {Biphyscium folio sum. Mohr. Hook. E.) Oil Hartfell moun¬ 
tain near Moffat. Sheffield in Huds. Own Cennog Rocks, also about 
Craig du, by the road side near Llanberris. Mr. Griffith. (By the road 
side on the mountains between Patterdale and Ambleside. Dr. Hooker, 
On Bridge Rocks, and the lower part of Harrison’s Rocks, near Tun¬ 
bridge Wells. Mr. Forster. E.) 
A. Sept.—Oct. Dill.—May—Aug. Huds* 
(B. apiiyl/la. Stem none : base bulbous, surrounded with minute 
scales. 
Hook. FI. Lond.—E. Bot. 1596— Muse. Brit. xxii. 
Hooker observes : “ This most singular of Mosses can scarcely be said to 
have any stems. All that might be so called, (or perhaps more strictly 
a perichcetium ) resembles a small bulb covered with hair-like processes, 
but which, when highly magnified, are found to be true leaves , mem¬ 
branous, reticulated, laciniated, and so narrow and minute, that they were 
either entirely overlooked or described only as hairs till lately. Whole 
plant not an inch high, of a red colour when quite ripe. Theca large, 
ovate, oblique, gibbous, flattish above, convex beneath. Lid conical, 
obtuse. 
Leafless Buxbaumia. On the ground. Rare. In a Fir wood at 
Sprowston, near Norwich. Among Fir trees below Roslin Chapel. Mr- 
E. Maughan. Georgetown Hill, near Kinross. Mr. Arnott. E.) 
SPLACH'NUM.* Capsule cylindrical, veil and receptacle 
very large '.fringe with eight teeth. 
Barr. FI. a bud on a different plant: circular, terminal. 
S. sPHi5E f RicuM. Receptacle globular: leaves spoon-shaped but tapering: 
to a slender point. 
Hedw. Stirp. ii. 16— {Muse. Brit, i yl.—E. Bot. 785. E.) 
Fruit-stalk very long, greenish and reddish brown. Capsule very sraalL 
Lid blunt. Receptacle green. Linn. Stem upright, hardly one inch high, 
seldom branched. Leaves distant, alternate, spoon-shaped, but tapering 
to a point. Fruit-stalk very long, (three or four inches) upright, ter¬ 
minal, tawny at bottom, green above. Receptacle large, globular, green. 
Capsule cylindrical, blunt. Lid blunt. Fringe eight pair of teeth, 
yellowish. Hedw. Fruit-stalks sometimes four or five inches high. 
(Green Globular Gland-moss. On the ejesta of animals, in mountainous 
countries frequent. E.) 
(Under S. sphcericum Messrs. Hooker and Taylor comprehend S. gracih. 
Dicks.; S. ovatum. Ilewd. ; and S . rugosum. Dicks. E.) 
S. vasculo'sum. Receptacle nearly globular: leaves battledore-shaped, 
distant. 
( Grev. Scot. Crypt. 179— Muse. Brit. Sup. i. E.)— Hedw. Stirp. ii. 15. 
Barren stems two inches, fertile ones one inch long, upright, unbranched. 
* (A name adopted by Linnaeus from Dioscorides, whose ait'Ka.v.wv is synonymous with 
his fifvov, (Bryum,) and belongs to Mosses in general, or rather perhaps to Lichens, grow¬ 
ing npon trees. E.} 
