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CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCT. Bryum. 
(E. Bot. 2270—Muse. Brit. xxx. E.)— Hedw. $tirp. iii. 7-^Dill. 51. 72 
Vaill. 24. 2 and 2—H. Ox. xv. 6, row 5. 20. 
Capsule, the neck downwards becomes gradually narrower. Dicks. Stems 
simple or branched: branches sometimes very slender, at others thicker 
and shorter; thickest where the fruit-stalks put forth, the leaves there 
expanding in the form of stars. Fruit-stalks near two inches long, 
.purple. Capsules bent downwards, tumid, green. Lid small, shining, 
white. Veil short, brown, red. Dill. 
(Messrs. Hooker and Taylor state, “It must be allowed that the differences 
between this Moss and (3 ( Mnium ) coespiticium are almost insufficient, 
and that it is more distinguishable by its larger size, proliferous habit, 
and brown or purple hue, than by any more essential characters/' Muse. 
Brit. The same authors likewise reduce to the present species, Bryum 
bymum , Schreb. E. Bot. 1518: and B. cuhitale , Dicks. E. Bot. 2554. E.) 
(Ventricose Bog Fringe-moss. Bryum ventricosum. Dicks. Gmel. Turn. 
Sm. Hook. Bryum triquetrum. Huds. M. triquetrum according to 
Lightf. 715. Huds. and Relh. n. r 786, but in the specimens of M. tri¬ 
quetrum in the Linnsean Herbarium and Ehrhart’s phytophyllacium the 
capsules are upright, slanting. Dicks. (Vid. E. Bot. 2394. E.) Turf 
bogs and marshy places. Turf pits, Effingham Fens, Norfolk. Mr. 
Stone. On mud or gravel by the sides of rivulets and springs, in the 
ascent of Snowdon and Glyder. Mr. Griffith. (On the sandy brink of the 
river at Mavis Bank, near Edinburgh. E. Bot. E.) March—May. 
Var. 2. Larger in all its parts. 
Dill. 51. 73— (FI. Dan. 1122. 1. E.) 
Leaves spear-shaped, alternate. Fruit-stalks red, sometimes branched. 
Leaves pellucid, green, shining. When about to flower it sends forth 
some reddish shoots, with finer leaves encompassed by others of a paler 
green. Flowers in the summer. Dill. Leaves almost hair-pointed. 
Bryum triquetrum (3. Huds. 490. B. ventricosum (3. With. Ed. ii. In 
marshy places. The red kind is found in the mountain torrents of 
Snowdon, and the green in high boggy heaths about London and Oxford. 
Dillenius. Near Celin House, two miles from Holywell. Mr. Griffith. 
BRY / UM. # Fruit-stalk terminal, issuing out of a tubercle : 
Capsule with a veil. 
Barr. FI. a bud either on the same or on a different 
plant, often axillary. 
SUBDIVISIONS OP THE BRYA. 
A. Capsules sessile, or nearly so. 
B. Capsules on fruit-stalks, upright. 
1. Stemless. 
2. Stem very short, rarely branched. 
S. Stems trailing. 
4, Stems upright. 
* (From $pvWf germino , pullulo , to sprout or shoot up: probably alluding to the 
perpetual viridescence of these plants. It was first used as a generic name by Dillenius, 
and afterwards adopted by Linnaeus. E.) 
