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CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Bryum* 
C. Capsules on fruit-stalks, leaning. 
(2) Stems upright. 
B. strumiferum. Capsules nearly upright, pear-shaped, toothed: 
receptacle crooked: leaves strap-spear-shaped, mostly pointing 
one way. 
Hedw. Stirp. ii. 32—(i?. Bot. 2419— Muse. Brit. xvii. E.) 
Capsules scored at the mouth, pear-shaped, but crooked, with an irregular 
knob at the base. Beak bent, fine red at the base. 
(Tumid Thread-moss. B. strumiferum. Dicks. Fissidens strumifer. 
Hedw. Hypnum strumosum. Gmel. (Dicranum strumiferum. Ehrh. 
Sm. Hook. E.) Boggy meadows in Scotland. Dickson. 
B. fal'lax. Capsules oblong, mouth bearded: shoots somewhat 
branched: leaves strap-spear-shaped, expanding, bent outwards. 
Dicks. 
Hedw. Stiip. i. 24— (E. Bot. 1708-— Muse. Brit. xii. E.) 
Different from B. imherhe , which has the leaves strap-awl-shaped and 
straight, and the beak of the lid conical. Barbulafallax. Hedw. but not 
his synonyms. Dicks. Full half an inch high. Leaves curled when dry. 
Lid slender, nearly cylindrical, not quite straight. 
(Hooker and Taylor do no admit Tortula imherbis to be distinct from the 
present species. Those authors observe : “ we know of no plant of this 
genus that varies so much in the size of the stems as this; so that the 
dwarfish individuals, growing in dry fields, would scarcely be believed 
to be the same as those luxuriant specimens found on the moist banks of 
rivers. In the former situation, when about half an inch, or somewhat 
more, in height, it agrees with T. unguiculata. Sm. when an inch and 
upwards, it becomes T. fallax, and when nearly two or three inches, it 
is B. Linoides. Dicks.” Muse. Brit. 
(Deceptive Thread-moss. Tortula fallax. Sw. Turn. Sm. Hook. Bar- 
bula fallax. Hedw. E.) On walls, banks, and amongst grass. 
B. crispa'tum. Capsules fringed, shoots branched: leaves strap-shaped, 
chanelled, curled. 
Dicks. 7. 4. 
The size of B. virens. Shoots upright. Leaves upright, twisted, curled, a 
little toothed. Calyx slightly contracted in the middle, scored when dry. 
Dicks. Capsules fringed ; fringe very long for the size of the plant. Lid 
depressed; beak long, slanting. Leaves pellucid, decurrent. Griff. 
(Crisped Thread-moss. E.) Bogs in Scotland. On the rocks of Crib y 
Ddescil, Cwn Idwel, and Clogwyn y Garregog, near Llanberris. Mr. 
Griffith. 
B. longifo'lium. Capsules oblong, toothed : shoots elongated, rather 
leaning, sometimes branched: leaves hair-like, pointing one way. 
Dicks. 
Hedw. Stirp. iii. 9— {Muse. Brit. xvi. E.) 
An inch high or more, growing shoot upon shoot; delicate, feeble, but 
upright. leaves sheathing at the base, very long and slender upwards, 
rather bent back and pointing one way. Capsules oblong, rather swollen 
