CRYPTO G AMI A. MUSCI. Bryum. 1053 
minal, upright, one to two inches high sometimes two together. Cq,p+ 
sules oblong, leaning, bent. Lid sharp-pointed, marked a scarlet circle. 
Weis. Sheathing , involucrum, pyramidal, its top closely embracing the 
fruit-stalk. Veil cylindrical, splitting one one side. Capsules cylindrical. 
Lid convex ; beak very long. Fringe of thirty-two teeth, single. Hedw. 
Stem in part buried in the ground. Leaves deep green, thin, pellucid, 
very finely serrated, soon curling up when the plant is gathered. Dill. 
(Leaves strongly mid-ribbed, serrated and waved at the edge. It has 
much of the habit of a Polytrichum. 
Wavy-leaved Thread-moss. E.) Polytrichum undulatum. Hedw. (Sm. 
Hook. E.) Shady banks, woods about the roots of trees, and heaths. 
P. Feb.—Aug. 
B. linea're. Capsules nearly upright, oblong fringed : shoots upright, 
unbranched: leaves strap-spear- shaped, tiled, but expanding. 
Dicks. 
(Muse. Brit. xx.— E. Bot. 1598. E.)— Dicks, iii. 8. 2. 
In crowded patches. Leaves green, yellow. Fruit-stalk terminal, much 
thicker upwards. Capsules brown. Fringe long, red. Beak slanting, 
blunt. 
(Linear Thread-moss. Trichostomum line are. Sm. Brid. also, according 
to Muse. Brit. T. rigidulum. Turn. E. Bot. 2178. Didymodon rigidulum. 
Hedw. Hook. E.) Wet sandy banks in the south of Scotland. Dickson. 
(Walls and rocks. Not uncommmon in Ireland. Muse. Brit. E.) 
D. Capsules on fruit-stalks, drooping. 
(1) Stem none, or very short and unbranched. 
B. car'neum. Capsules somewhat globular : leaves alternate, acute. 
Hedw. Stirp. 1. 20—( E. Bot. 360~Musc. Brit. xxix. E.)— Dill. 50. 69— 
Buxh. ii. 2. 5 and 6— Hall. Enum. 4. 6, at p. 118. Hist. 45. 6, at iii. jd. 41. 
Shoots upright, single, or in tufts, dividing into several branches four or 
five lines long. Leaves half or one line long, half a line broad, not hairy 
at the end, very entire. Fruit-stalks terminating the shoots and the 
branches, three or four lines long. Capsules roundish, egg-shaped. Bmg 
none. Lid short, bluntish. Veil smooth, reaching but half-way down. 
Pol. 
(Flesh-coloured Thread-moss. E.) B. delicatulum. Hedw. Moist 
banks, pastures : wet drains. Summer. Dill.—March—April. Huds. 
Var. 2. Capsules green. Branches and fruit-stalks longer. R. Syn. p. 102. 
n. 52. 
Dill. 50. 69. G. 
Yorkshire. Mr. Richardson. 
(B. to'zeri. Stem short, simple, erect: leaves remote, spreading ob- 
ovate, entire, cuspidate, margined, loosely reticulated, the nerve 
vanishing beyond the middle : capsule drooping, somewhat pear- 
shaped. 
Grev. Scot. Crypt. 285. 
Plant not more than half an inch in height. Stem naked below, very slen¬ 
der. Leaves not more than six or eight, remote, pale reddish colour ; 
