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CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Mnium. 
{E. Bot. 1218— Muse. Brit. xi. E.)— Dill. 55. 5— Vaill. 28. 13— FI. Dan. 
297. 
Two or three inches high; with lateral branches somewhat forked, rising 
to nearly an equal height. Fruit-stalks lateral, two or three inches high. 
Involucrum, red. Capsule cylindrical, egg-shaped, tawny, upright, 
leaning as it ripens. Lid yellow, beak white. Mouth with a ring, and 
covered by a white membrane. Receptacle none. Barren shoots un¬ 
branched, two inches high, stellated at the ends. Leers. Beak of the lid 
very slender. Grif. ( Leaves of a singularly glaucous green hue, (reddish 
only through age,) by which it may be distinguished at first sight. Muse. 
Brit. E.) 
(Urn-bearing Hair-moss. E.) At the foot of Cader Idris. Dillenius. 
At Roslin, Rivelstone, and other places near Edinburgh. Frequent by road 
sides in the north of Ireland; also in the Highlands of Scotland. Mr. 
Brown. (On Gateshead Fell, near Newcastle. Mr. Winch. E.) Near 
the road side between Denbigh and Voylas, by the rivulet before you 
arrive at a place called Pennsylvania; and on Cader Idris, with the shoots 
hardly half an inch high, fruit-stalk as tall as usual. Mr. Griffith. 
P. June—Aug. 
(P. sEPTENTRT0NA r LE. Leaves linear-subolate, obtuse, their margins, 
especially towards the top, involute, subserrulate: capsule ovate, 
subangulate, furnished with a minute apophysis : lid conical, 
acuminate. 
Muse. Brit. x.— Hedw. 22— E. Bot. 1906. 
Remarkable in the form of its leaves , which are very obtuse, curled wffien 
dry, so convex behind as to be semi-cylindrical. 
Northern Hair-moss. P. septentrionale. Sw. Hook. Menz. P. sexdn - 
gnlare. Sm. Brid. P. Norvegicum. Hedw. P. crassisetu7n. De Cand. 
Discovered on Ben Nevis, by Messrs. Turner and Hooker, in 1808. In 
fruit on Brae Reach, and Ben-y-Mach Buich, the highest of the Cairn- 
gorum range of Grampian mountains. Muse. Brit. E.) 
MNI'UM. # Capsule with a veil: Fringe with sixteen teeth, 
sometimes, though rarely, with four. 
Barr. FI. Bad circular, rarely knob-like, mostly on a 
separate plant. 
(1) Capsules upright, cylindrical. 
M. acicula're. Capsules slender: lid needle-like: leaves spear- 
shaped, upright, mostly pointing one way. 
Dicks. H. S.—Hedw. Stirp. iii. 33—( Muse . Brit. xix.—E. Bot. 1978. E.) 
— Dill. 46. 25. 
One inch or one inch and a half high. Branches upright. Leaves crowded. 
Fruit-stalks near an inch high, dark red; on the ends of the younger 
branches. Dill. Leaves spear-shaped. Fruit-stalks not half an inch 
higher than the tops of the shoots. 
* (Adopted by Dillenius from the Greeks* whose uvw is supposed to be synonymous 
with Moss, K.) 
