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CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Brwm. 
Rocks near Bangor. Dillenius. On stones on the side of rivers which 
are washed by the water in high floods. Mr. Griffith. (Mr. Sowerby 
gathered it on upright posts by the Thames at Wandsworth. E. Bot. 
E.) Autumn. 
B. tecto'rum. Capsules sessile axillary : veils hairy, conical. 
Hedw. Stirp. 11. 37 — (E. But. 1493— Muse. Brit. xxi. E.)— Bill. 55. 9— 
Vaill. 97. 10—J3. Ox. xv. 6, row the last , 13. 
Plant smaller than B. striatum, leaves smaller, darker green : veil paler and 
more distinctly toothed at the base. Dill. Differs also from it in want¬ 
ing the inner fringe, and having the edge of the veil scolloped. Hedw. 
(Rough Single-fringed Thread-moss. E.) Orthotrichum anomalum. 
Hedw. (O. cupulatum. Hoffm. Hook. Grev. O. nudum. Dicks. E. Bot. 
1395, is likewise included in this species by the authors of Muse. Brit, 
who appear to consider the real O. anomalum of Hedwig, (also in Muse. 
Brit, xxi., and B. striatum (3. Linn.) to be distinct from the plant so 
denominated by Smith; but the difference is not very obvious. E.) On 
stones, walls, and the ground. Feb.—April. 
(Var. 9. Leaves mid-ribbed, hair-pointed. Capsules on short fruit-stalks, 
terminal, with sixteen slender expanding teeth. Veil hairless, ribbed. 
April. E.) 
B. strla/tum. Capsules oblong, sessile, axillary or terminal: veil 
hairy : leaves spear-shaped, acute. 
(E. Bot. 9187 — Muse. Brit. xxi. E.)— Hedw. Stirp. ii. 36 — Neck. Meth. 1. 
9, at p. 973, a capsule magnified ••— Bill. 55. S — FI. Ban. 537. 3— Vaill. 
95. 5 and 6. 
Obs. Nearly allied to the Polytricha, but wanting the fleshy receptacle 
below the capsule. Linn. 
Shoots one inch high, branched. Capsules lateral. Mouth nearly smooth, 
without a ring. Neck. Branched ; two or three inches high. Leaves as 
if gnawed at the ends. Florets of both sorts on the same or on distinct 
plants. Fruit-stalk very short, sheathed at the base. Capsules egg- 
shaped. Lid small, beak blunt. Fringe double, sixteen teeth in each. 
Found both in flower and in fruit almost all the year. Hedw. 
(Common Thread-moss. B. striatum a. Linn. E.) Polytrichum stria¬ 
tum. Huds. Orthotrichum striatum. Hedw. (very nearly allied to which 
is O. speciosum. Muse. Brit. Sup. iv. E.) In woods, on the trunks of 
old trees. The veils appear in winter, and the capsules in Feb. March, 
and April. Dill. P. 
B. Capsules on fruit-stalks, upright. 
(1) Slemless. 
B. cuneifo'lium. Capsules cylindrical, toothed: leaves wedge-eg- 
shaped, pellucid, reticulated. Dicks. 
( E. Bot. 1510 — Muse. Brit. xii. E.)— Bill. 45. 15— Buxb. i. 64. 
Leaves shorter, broader, and softer than in B. mirale, pellucid, green, not 
hoary with hairs. Grows much crowded with hairs, but not in a circu¬ 
lar form. Dill. 
(Wedge-leafed Thread-moss. B. cuneifolium. Dicks. Sm. Hook. 
