1012 CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCL Splachnum. 
Leaves spatula-shaped, bluntish, alternate, distant. Fruit-stalk one and 
a half inch high, upright, red. Receptacle large, spear-shaped, blood red. 
Capsule cylindrical, upright, brownish yellow. Fringe simple, composed 
of eight teeth, in pairs. Hedw. (This is perhaps the finest and most 
beautiful of all the British Mosses. We have seen it covering a spot of 
ground many feet in diameter with its brilliant green foliage, and spotted 
with its large, deep rich brown, shining capsules. Hook. E.) 
(Blood-coloured opObtuse-leaved Gland-moss. E.) Phascum pedun- 
culatum. Huds. Ed. i. adopted by Linnaeus. (Smith associates this plant 
with S. gracile. E.) Upon bogs, and on the points of rocks on the tops 
of the Highland mountains, as Ben Lomond, and in the Isle of Skye 
and elsewhere. Lightfoot. 697. On Scarbrae Moss in the parish of Kirk- 
michael. Dr. Burgess. On mountainous moist heaths in Yorkshire, 
Westmoreland, and Wales. (Whether the plants of Hedwig and Hudson 
be the same, may be questionable ; but Dr. Greville appears to have found 
the former in similar situations, and in extended patches, as on Ben 
Lawers, and the Clova mountains. E.) A. June—Oct. Huds.—P. Hedw. 
Var. Acutifolia of that author, “ distinguished by much shorter stems, a 
dingy, almost black colour, and, above all, by the acute termination of 
the leaves,” is represented in the same work, PI. 311. E.) 
S. ampulla'ceum. Receptacle inversely bottle-shaped: leaves spear- 
shaped, acute, generally serrated. 
E. Rot. 144— Hedw. Stirp. ii. 14— {Muse. Brit. ix. E.)— FI. Ban. 822— 
Dill. 44. 3 — Vaill. 26. 4— H. Ox. xv. 6. 10— Buxb. ii. 1.1. 
Receptacle empty, transparent, an extension of the fruit-stalk. Linn. Stem 
single or forked, from one to two inches high, upright, but feeble, and 
supported by other collateral stems. Leaves spear-shaped, acutely 
pointed. Stamens and pistils on the end of the same shoot. Veil bell¬ 
shaped. Capsule slender, cylindrical, upright. Receptacle large, shaped 
like an inverted decanter. Lid convex. Fringe single, of eight pair of 
teeth. Hedw. Fruit-stalks crimson, one to three inches long. Veil very 
small, deciduous. (One of the finest of Splachna. Grev. E.) 
Purple Bottle or Gland-moss. Bogs and marshes, and often upon 
cow-dung. Bogs about Hitchin Ferry near Southampton, and by W. 
Wickham, and Addington near Croydon. Ray Syn. Geldestone Fen, near 
Bungay, Suffolk. Mr. Stone. (In a turbary north of Tyfry, between that 
and Hendref, Anglesey; a spot which Mr. Davies indicates as w r ell 
worthy the inspection of the Botanist in each season of the year. At 
Pres wick Carr, Northumberland; and on the Durham moors. Mr. Winch. 
E.) According to Hedwig, P., and ripening its capsules in July. 
A. March—May. 
(Messrs. Turner and Hooker concur in opinion that Dickson’s S. Tur- 
nerianum , E. Bot. 1116, (S. sagittifolium , With.) is only a var. of S. am- 
pullaceum. The whole plant is smaller, and the apophysis of the capsule 
narrower than in the common appearance. E.) 
S. angusta'tum. Receptacle egg-shaped: fruit-stalk very short: leaves 
serrated upwards, hair-pointed. 
Hedw. Stirp. ii. 12— {E. Bot. 1132 -—Muse. Brit. ix. E.) 
Upright, not branched, nearly one inch high. Leaves larger towards the top 
of the plant, sometimes a little toothed towards the end. Fruit-stalk 
hardly rising above the leafy involucrum. Capsule cone-shaped, but 
