CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Mnium. 1027 
shrub-like. Stem naked at the bottom, foliage from one centre at the 
top. Leaves from three to six lines long, and two broad. Other shoots 
often rise from this foliage. Some of these are barren roses, but others 
send out fruit-stalks, one or two inches long, bearing pale orange cap¬ 
sules. Veils not observed. Weis. 
(Proliferous Fringe-moss. E.) Bryum serpyllifolium proliferum. Huds. 
and With. Ed. ii. ( Bryum roseum. Schreb. Sm. Hook. E.) Wet 
places in woods and heaths near Bishop’s Castle. Dillenius. Bungay, 
Suffolk. Mr. Stone. Winter. 
M. cru'dum. Capsules oblong-egg-shaped: shoot unbranched: leaves 
spear-shaped, acute. 
(E. Bot . 1604— Muse. Brit, xxviii. E.)— Hedw. Stirp. i. 37—Hill. 51. 70— 
Vaill. 26. 12. 
Leaves green, almost silky. Fruit-stalks long, red. Linn. Half an inch 
high; not branched. Leaves , upper ones thrice as long as the lower, 
crowded, upright but open. Capsules upright, then pendent, and lastly 
upright again. Veil turning up when the capsule hangs down. Lid 
hemispherical, beak short, stellated plant not so tall. A powdery brown 
substance in the centre of the star. Leers. Fertile stein half an inch ; 
Barren stem half an inch high, or more. Leaves, the upper ones a little 
toothed towards the ends. Capsule bent horizontally. Mouth, outer 
fringe of sixteen teeth. Hedw. Fruit-stalks from the ends of the young 
shoots; pale red. Dill. The whole plant has a silky gloss. Lower 
leaves broader and shorter than those above; a few of the uppermost 
sometimes very slender pointed. 
(Pale Fringe-moss. M. crudum. Linn. Hedw. Dill. Bryum crudum. 
Huds. Sm. Turn. Hook. E.) Fens in Cambridgeshire. Dillenius. 
Woods about Rydall, Westmoreland. Hudson. Crib y Ddescil, Car¬ 
narvonshire, Cader Idris, Merionethshire. Mr. Griffith. P. March—June. 
M. ciESPiTi'ciuM. Capsules oblong-egg-shaped: shoots short, but 
branched : leaves spear-shaped, hair-pointed. 
Curt. 106—( E . Bot. 1904— Muse. Brit. xxix. E.)— Dili. 50. 66— H. Ox.xv. 
6, row 5. 15— Vaill. 29. 7. 
Fruit-stalks red at the bottom, yellow green at top. Reyg. Grows ia 
broad dense patches. Only a few lines high; branched at the top,, 
covered with a brown knap at bottom. Leaves very small, crowded, 
shining. Fruit-stalks an inch (or two) high, issuing from the roses of last 
year’s shoots, surrounded at bottom with a leafy sheath or fence. Cap¬ 
sule at first uprigh; slender, egg-shaped. Lid red, shining, mamme- 
form. Mouth slightly fringed. Veil brown, changing to tawny red. 
Weis, and Dill. Leaves mid-ribbed. Fruit-stalks from an oblong bulb, 
invested with hair-like fibres. Outer coat of the capsule with sixteen 
teeth. 
(Under this species Hooker and Taylor include B. bicolor, Dicks. E. Bot. 
1601. E.) 
(Lesser Matted Fringe-moss. Bryum ccespiticium. Linn. Huds. Curt. 
Turn. Sm. Hook. B. erythrocarpum. Dill. Old walls, stones,, roofs, 
grass, gravel, banks, and hillocks. P. Feb.—April. 
M. pseudo-tri'quetrum. Capsules oblong-egg-shaped: shoots 
branched: leaves egg or spear-awl-shaped, bordered, keeled, 
pointing in three directions. 
