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CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Mnium. 
(E. Bot. 1183— Muse. Brit. xxx. E.)— Bill. 53. 81— Rapp. ii. 4— Vaill. 26- 
5-rPluk. 45. 7—If. Ox. xv. 6. 39 and 40. 
It varies in the fruit-stalJcs being solitary or incorporated, and also in the 
fertile shoots being upright, and the barren shoots creeping. Wild. 
Grows in large patches. Stems simple. Leaves with a scarlet rib, 
cartilaginous and purple at the edges. Fruit-stalks terminal, gene- 
nerally single, sometimes three or four together; one to two inches high; 
thicker downwards. Capsules nutant, egg-shaped. Seeds greenish. 
Shoots without capsules, ending in roses. Weis. Leaves pellucid, smooth, 
pale green. Fruit-stalks one to three on a plant. Dill. 
(Dotted Fringe-moss. E.) Bryum serpyllifolium punctatum. Huds. 
M. serpyllifolium a. Linn. ( Bryum punctatum. Schreb. Turn. Sm. 
Hook. E.) 
■ Var. 2. Punctatum. With. Ed. ii. Leaves longer, more pellucid. 
Bill. 53. 80. 
Leaves longer and blunter than (3 of Linnaeus. Capsules not so pendulous. 
IAd spit-pointed. Fruit-stalks three to five on a plant. Dill. 
In bogs in the West Riding of Yorkshire. 
Capsules half ripe in spring. Dill. 
M. undula'tum. Capsules oblong-egg-sliaped: fruit-stalks several 
together : leaves oblong, waved, serrulated. 
{Hook. FI. Lond. — E. Bot. 1449— Muse. Brit. xxx. E.)— Bill. 52. 76 —• 
Vaill. 24. 3— Mich. 59. 5— Tourn. 326. E. — Pet. Gaz. 95. 1(>— II. Ox. xv. 
6, row the last , 1— Neck. Meth. f. 6, at p. 273, a star-like head. 
Boot strong, creeping. Shoots three or four, to five or six inches long, 
branched or un branched. Leaves thin, pellucid, strap-spear-shaped, 
waved and serrated. Capsule pendent; lid blunt. Veil straight, pointed. 
Dill. Barren flower surrounded by strap-shaped leafits, in the centre of 
shoots ending in roses. Leaves strap-shaped; mid-rib-large. 
(Undulated Fringe-moss. E.) Bryum serpyllifolium undulatum. Huds. 
M. serpyllifolium undulatum. With. Ed. ii. Schreb. Sm. Hook. M. un¬ 
dulatum. Hedw. M. serpyllifolium t>. Linn. Dill. ( Bryum ligulatum. 
Hook. E.) Moist shady woods about the roots of trees and hedges. 
P. April.* 
M. prolif'erum. Capsules oblong-egg-shaped: shoots proliferous: 
leaves spear-shaped, pointed, forming terminal roses. 
(E. Bot. 2395— Muse. Brit. xxix. E.)— Bill. 52. 77—Buxb. 11. 1. 3. 
Stems straight, naked. Leaves terminal, large, shining, pellucid, disposed 
in a circle, widening upwards, ending in a point, scarce sensibly serrated. 
Capsules on a different plant, rarely appearing, pendent; lid reddish, 
blunt. Fruit-stalk one inch long, thick. Dill. Very elegant in form : 
*(On the leaves of this Moss, and also upon Dicranum Bryaides, in Wallington woods, 
Northumberland, may sometimes he discovered one of the most elegant of the minute 
Gastromyci , viz. Leavgeum Trevelyani , which, as Dr. Greville observes, “whether we 
regard the extreme symmetry of its form, or its delicate structure, and pleasing colour, 
forms one of the most charming lit tie objects the eye can possibly rest upon.” It is beautifully 
illustrated in Scot. Crypt. FI. pi. 132. and thus described : “sporangium sessile, ovato- 
globose, reddish-brown, splitting into regular linear, retiexed segments ; columella mi¬ 
nute; sporules pedicellated.” E.) 
