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CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Bryum. 
Hedw. Stirp. iii. 2— (E. Bot. 1348— Muse. Brit. xix. E.)— Dill. AT. 32 — H . 
Ox. xv. 5, row 2. 7 — Hall. Hist. 46*. 4, at iii. p. 56. 
Leaves a little toothed at the sides, but this most conspicuous in the dried 
plant. Capsule upright. Mouth fringed with sixteen teeth, hair-like, 
separate quite down to the base. Hedw. Shoots rigid, from three to 
twelve inches long; prostrate. Branches numerous, short, thicher than 
the main stem. Leaves slender, pale green, ending in a long grey hair. 
Fruit-stalks terminal, or nearly so; short, yellow. Capsules small, egg- 
shaped. Lid red, sharp-pointed. Dill. Lid regularly conical, but very 
taper, and about one-third the length of the capsule. 
(Toothed Hoary Thread-moss. E.) B. Hypnoides a. Linn. £. Huds. 
Trichostomum lamtginosum. Hedw. (Sw. Turn. Sm. Hook. E.) On 
Snowdon and Glyder; Mendip Hills; Hills in Yorkshire. Dillenius. (On 
the top of the Sugar Loaf mountain, Monmouthshire, in very dense 
patches. Purton. On heaths in Norfolk. Rev. James Layton; in Muse. 
. Brit. Autumn. 
Var. 2. Leaves fasciculated, not closely set, spear-awl-shaped, mid-ribbed, 
doubled together, ending in a short whitish hair; curled when dry. 
j E. Bot. 2005— Muse. Brit. xix. E.)— Dill. 47.28. A. something resembles it } 
but that is described as hairless. 
Branched upwards. Fruit-stalk from one-fourth to three-fourths of an inch 
long, varying greatly in different specimens. 
B. Hypnoides (3. Linn, and Huds. (Trichostomum fasciculare. Turn. Sm. 
Hook. E.) On Snowdon. Dillenius and Griffith. Sometimes the 
branches are so short as to resemble bundles of leaves, and then the 
fruit-stalks are short in proportion. Dill. 47. 28. B. if furnished with hairs, 
would be a pretty good resemblance of it in this state. 
Var. 3. Leaves fasciculated, egg-awl-shaped, mid-ribbed, keeled, pointed 
with a white hai r. 
From two to three inches long, trailing, branches and fruit-stalks longer 
than in var. 1. None of the figures exactly resemble it. 
Var. 4. Leaves fasciculated, spear-awl-shaped, mid-ribbed, doubled to¬ 
gether, hair-pointed, curled when dry. 
Near two inches long. Less trailing than the preceding, but chiefly 
differing in the shape of the leaves, and being of a bright yellow green. 
(B • lutescens. Dicks. ? E.) 
Var. 5. Leaves fasciculated, spear-awl-shaped, mid-ribbed, not hair-pointed: 
fruit-stalks very short. 
Specimen from Mr. Griffith, who thinks it ought to be considered as a 
distinct species; and in favour of this opinion we may observe, that all 
the preceding varieties have hair-pointed leaves, but this and the subse¬ 
quent ones are not so. The stems more or less trailing, and the leaves 
growingin bundles are always sufficient to distinguish B. Hypnoides audits 
reputed varieties from B. canescens , whilst the presence or absence of that 
hoariness which is caused by the hairs at the points of the leaves, will at 
once discriminate the four first varieties of B. Hypnoides from the subse¬ 
quent ones. 
Var. 6. Leaves fasciculated, spear-awl-shaped, mid-ribbed, doubled to* 
gether, curled when dry : lid not beaked. 
Dili 47. 30. 
