1048 CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Bryum. 
B. flaves'cens. Capsules cylindrical, fringed : shoots mostly simple: 
leaves spear-strap-shaped, keeled. Dicks, ii. 4. 
(E. Bot. 2263.—Muse. Brit. xvii. E.)— Dicks. 4. 5. a. b. 
Shoots nearly upright. Leaves between upright and open, yellowish, the 
points when dry twisted. Dicks. ( Stems perennial, two or three inches 
tall, simple or branched, leafy, smooth, except about the bottom, where 
they are a little downy with rusty fibres. Leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, 
keeled, single-ribbed, spreading, entire, except a few occasional teeth near 
the tip. Fruit-stalks few, half an inch high. Capsule erect, top-shaped. 
E. Bot. 
Supposed to be distinct from B.Jlavescens. Scop. 
Yellowish Thread-moss. Dicranum Jlavescens. Sm. Hook. Muse. Brit. 
On wet sand under the banks of rocky rivers. In the dingle through 
which the stream is conveyed to Beaumaris mills. Welsh Bot.* Bogs 
in Yorkshire, and in Scotland. E.) 
B. BREVifo'lium. Capsules oblong, tapering, imperfectly fringed: 
leaves crowded, strap-shaped, keeled. Dicks, ii. 4. 
( E. Bot. 2453— Muse. Brit. Sup. ii. E.)— Dill. 47. 39. 
Slender, but little branched. Leaves dark green, very narrow and short. 
Fruit-stalks terminating the new shoots, short. Capsules oblong, small, 
dark brown. Dill. (Some Botanists conceive this not to be essentially 
distinct from Tortulafallax, but its leaves are in general far more rigid, 
more erect, and very straight; though perhaps var. B. viridis, of Muse. 
Brit, may scarcely be discriminated from that species. E.) 
(Short-leaved Thread-moss. Tortulabrevifolia. Sm. T.gracilis. Hook. 
Grev. Barhula gracilis. Schwaegr. B. brevifolia. Brid. E.) Bogs in 
Yorkshire and in Scotland. (On the moors near Blanchland, Northum¬ 
berland. Mr. Winch. E.) 
B. flagella're. Capsules cylindrical, toothed: shoots branched, 
waved: leaves awl-shaped, channelled, pointing one way. Dicks. 
(E. Bot. 1977 —Muse. Brit, xviii. E.)— Hedw. Stirp. iii. 1. 
Fruit-stalk very slender. Capsule cylindrical, upright. Lid long, awl- 
shaped, bent. Veil splitting at the side, whitish, deciduous. 
(Slender-branched Thread-moss. Dicranum Jlagellare. Hedw. Sm. 
D. Scottianum. Turn. Sm. Hook. D. montanum. Hedw. Sm. Rocks 
in mountainous districts. E.) P. 
B. capilla'ceum. Capsules oblong: leaves in two rows, bristle-shaped, 
somewhat sheathing at the base. 
Hedw. Stirp. ii. 26 — (E. Bot. 1152— Muse. Brit. xx. E.)— FI. Dan . 1000. 
1— Dicks. 1. 6— Hall. Enum. 4. 1, at p. 118. Hist. 45. 1, at iii. p. 41. 
Capsules oblong. Leaves expanding, bristle-shaped. Huds. Differs from 
B. heteromallum in its open leaves, and the shape of its capsules; from 
B.Jlexuosum in its fruit-stalks slender, quite straight, not zigzag, and in 
* (The Rev. Hugh Davies makes frequent mention of this dingle, (as a spot where 
“ flowers of fairy brow,”) and describes it to be a very prolific station deserving the parti¬ 
cular attention of Botanists. E.) 
