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CRYPTOGAM! A. MUSCL Rryum. 
(Northern Thread-moss. Dicranum kyperboreum. E. Bot. E.) Rocks 
on Ben Nevis. Dickson. 
B. Capsules on fruit-stalks, upright. 
(4) Stems upright . 
c. Capsules oblong. 
B. recur viros'trum. Capsules oblong, slender: beak bent: leaves 
spear-shaped, tiled, expanding. 
Hedw. Stirp. i. 7—■(. E.Bot . 1438 — Muse. Brit. xiv. E.)— Dill. 48. 45. 
Stem upright, not branched, about half an inch high. Fruit-stalk upright, 
generally terminating the old stem. Veil long, conical, crooked. I Ad 
convex, beak straight whilst under the veil, afterwards crooked, but in 
a direction opposite to the bend of the veil. Hedw. Stem sometimes 
branched. (See tig. Dill.) Leaves very slender, keeled, upper ones the 
longest. Fruit-stalks red, half an inch high, or more. Capsules and lid 
red. Dill. 
(Curved-beaked Thread-moss. E.) Weissia recurvirostra. Hedw. ( Weis - 
sia curvirostra. Muse. Brit. Hook. Grev. Grimmia recurvirostra. Sm. 
E.) B. curvirostrum. Dicks., and With. Ed. ii. Woods in dryish places. 
Sandy stony places, interwoven with the grass. (In Patterdale, Cum¬ 
berland. Mr. Winch. E.) P. Aug. 
B. barba'tum. Capsules oblong, slender: lid taper-pointed, slanting: 
fruit-stalks lateral: leaves spear-shaped, acute, the upper ones 
expanding. 
Curt. 274 — (F. Bot. 2391. E.)— Dill. 48. 48. 
Grows in tufts, half an inch high, somewhat branched. Leaves spear- 
shaped, pointed. Fruit-stalks half an inch or more from the base or the 
middle of the branch, but never terminal. Capsules slender. Veil long. 
Lid long, slender, conical. Fringe orange-coloured or scarlet, twisted 
like a screw. Curt. (The 45th pi. of Dillenius is referred to by mistake 
in the observations of Mr. Curtis.) Branches of equal thickness, sent off 
from the lower part of the plant. Dill. 
(The authors of Muse. Brit, have reduced this, with several others, to 
B. unguiculatum : but Curtis observes, “ we are convinced, from re¬ 
peated observations, that it is a species perfectly distinct. It approaches 
very near to B. imberbe and unguiculatum. From the former it differs 
in having the antherse or capsules terminated by long, twisted cilise, and 
in having the peduncles always proceeding from the base of the surculus ; 
this last character also strikingly distinguishes it from B. unguiculatum.” 
(Bearded Lateral Thread-moss. B. barbatum. Curt. With. Hull. 
Relh. Tortula barbata. Sm. E.) On walls. P. Dec.—Feb. 
B. imber'be. Capsules oblong: beak slanting: leaves slender, spear- 
shaped, keeled, bent outwards. 
(F. Bot. 2329. E.)— Dill. 48. 4G. 
Fruit-stalks upright, solitary, terminating and lateral, half an inch long. 
Capsules cylindrical, one line long, deep saffron-coloured, blackish at the 
base. Web. Fringe long. Hal. Not an inch high, upright, unbranched 
