CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Bryum. 
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Leaves crowded, very small, yellowish or brownish green. Fruit-stalk 
from the upper branches, half an inch long. Dill. It forms a cushion on 
the rocks. Linn. In the specimens before me some plants are distinctly 
of the barren, and others of the fertile kind. 
B. hypnoides d. Huds. (Trichostomum obtusum. Sm. E.) On Snowdon. 
Dillenius and Mr. Griffith. Aug. 
Var. 7. Shoots long, prostrate, leaves pointing one way, in bundles or 
distinct, awl-shaped, bent, very slender and fine, but not hair-pointed. 
There is not any figure of this. The plant is brown green, four or five 
inches long, branches few, very short; fruit-stalk scarcely longer than 
the leaves. Shoot distinct, composed of a bundle of brown red fibres. 
Specimen from Mr. Dickson. 
B. Capsules on fruit-stalks, upright. 
(4) Stems upright, 
a. Capsules roundish. 
B. reticula'tum. Capsules pear-shaped, toothed: leaves egg-shaped, 
serrated, reticulated. Dicks, ii. 4. 
Dicks. 4. 6. a. b. — ( E. Bot. 2507. E.) 
Shoots upright. Leaves distant, rather pointed, of a remarkable net-work 
texture, transparent, serrated towards the end, below very entire. Fruit - 
stalk from the base of the plant. Capsule teeth bent in. Dicks. 
(Reticulated Thread-moss. B . reticulatum. Dicks. Splachnum reticu¬ 
latum. Sm. and assimilated with S. Frcelichianum, Muse. Brit. ix. by 
Hooker and Taylor, but considered distinct by Smith. E.) On Ben 
High, in the Highlands. 
B. penna'tum. Capsules very small: fruit-stalks terminal: shoot 
simple, upright, wing-cleft: leaves pointing two ways, spear- 
shaped vary entire. 
Hedw. Stirp . 1 . 29—(E. Bot. 2213 — Muse. Brit. viii. E.)— Dicks. 1 . 4. 
Plant half an inch high; naked at bottom. Barren stems wing-cleft. 
Fertile stems, some star-like, some bearing capsules; very slender, 
bright green. Leaves distinct, egg-spear-shaped, pointing from two 
opposite lines. Fruit-stalks very slender, green, one-eighth of an inch 
long, rising out of an involucrum resembling that of the barren flower. 
Capsule upright, very small, green, roundish, but lopped when the lid 
has fallen off. Veil none observed. Lid very blunt, reddish. Fringe 
naked. Dicks. Veil falling off entire. Hedw. 
(Wing-cleft Thread-moss. E.) Mnium Osmundaceum. Dicks. Gym - 
nostomum pennatum. Hedw. (G. Osmundaceum. Sm. Schistostega 
pennata. Brid. Muse. Brit. Hollows in old hedge-banks, in a rich 
soil on the road from Zele to South Tawton, four miles from Oak- 
hampton: Mr. Newberry ; (and in the same county, by the Rev. J. S. 
Tozer, near the village of Haberton, two miles from Totness; near 
Chelwill in the same parish; also near Meavy Parsonage; always on 
mouldering hedge-banks. Muse. Brit. We are also favoured by an 
unknown friend with the following station for this favourite Moss: 
April, 1826; It is now abundantly in fructification in Nottingham 
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