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CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Mnium. 
Leaves three lines or more in length, very entire. Lid awl-shaped, very 
sharp-pointed. Mouth fringed. Pol. Whole plant brittle, greyish when 
growing, or pale glaucous green; whitish when dry. Veil slender, 
white. Dill. One to three inches high; branches thick. Fruit-stalk one 
inch, but only half an inch higher than the shoots. 
(White Fringe-moss. E.) Bryum glaucum. Linn. Dill. Hicranum 
glaucum. Hedw. (Sm. Hook. E.) Mountainous heaths. Near the 
copper-works at Llanberris; but very rarely bearing fruit. Mr. Griffith. 
P. Aug.—Nov. 
M. pellu'cens. Capsules egg-oblong, small: lid taper-pointed, bent: 
shoot hairy : leaves spear-shaped, reflexed, acute. 
Hedw. Theor. 8. 1 to 4— (E. Bot. 1346— Muse. Brit. xvii. E.)— Hill. 46. 
23. 24— Pluk. 44. 7. Pluk. 49. 1, several shoots rising from the top of that of 
the last year. 
Shoots from one to three inches, with rust-coloured hair-like fibres on the 
lower part. Leaves slender, keeled, crooked, pellucid, sometimes wrin¬ 
kled. Fruit-stalks sometimes in pairs; terminating. Capsules brown 
when dry. Dill. 
(Pellucid Fringe-moss. E.) Bryum pellucidum. Linn. Dill. ( Dicra - 
num pellucidum. Sw. Sm. Hook. E.) Marshy and shady places. 
Near North Bierly, not far from Bradford, Yorkshire, and on the sides of 
lakes on the Glyder and Snowdon mountains. P. June—Sept. 
M. palus'tre. Capsules egg-oblong: lids conical: shoots branched, 
forked: leaves awl-spear-shaped, acute. 
(E. Bot. 391 —Muse. Brit, xxviii. E.)— Hill. 31. 3 —Vaill 24. 1 —H. Ox. 
xv. 6, row 3. 9— Schmid. 56. 2. 
Capsules crooked after shedding their seeds. Fruit-stalks slightly waved. 
Griff. Fruit-stalks yellow. Reyg. often two inches long, Relh. from the 
fork of the stem. Neck, crowded. Stems upright, two to five inches 
high; mostly two, sometimes with three divisions. Leaves slender, 
soft, pellucid, keeled, yellow green, yellow when dry. Dill. Stems 
two or three inches high, branching towards the top into two, three, 
or four shoots. Leaves, lower ones downy. Summit-leaves flat, large, 
forming stars, in which are the barren flowers. Fruit-stalks from the 
tops of the last year’s shoots, which now likewise support new shoots. 
Capsules leaning. 
(Forked Fringe-moss. Bryum palustre. Sw. Turn. Hook. E.) Turf 
bogs and wet heaths, marshes and moors. P. June—July. 
Var. 2. Stem branched, upright. Fruit-stalks from the bosom of the 
leaves. Huds. 
Hill. 31. 4. 
Stern sometimes simple. Dill. 236. Fertile flowers not discovered. Dill, in 
R. Syn. 78. n. 3. Smaller than the preceding. Fruit-stalks axillary, nu¬ 
merous, not terminating in capsules, but in small globular heads con¬ 
taining a powder. This seems to be the barren plant. 
M. ramosum. Huds. Ed. i. 403, and Gmel. Syst. Veg. 
M. puepu'reum. Capsules nearly cylindrical: fruit-stalks axillary: 
shoots branched: leaves oblong, acute, keeled. 
