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CRYPTOGAMIA. MUSCI. Bryum. 
the margin and nerve dark red. jFruit-stalk a quarter of an inch long. 
Capsule small, dark brown. To the naked eye strongly resembling 
B. carneum, but under the microscope, the leaves especially are 
abundantly distinct. 
Minute Diaphanous Thread-moss. Discovered by the Rev. J. S. 
Tozer on clay banks by the river Dart, Devonshire, four miles above 
Totness. E.) 
B. becurva'tum. Capsules roundish: leaves bristle-shaped. Dicks, 
ii. 7. 
{Muse. Brit. xv.— E. Bot. 1489. E.)— Hedw. Stirp. 1. 38— Jacq. Misc. ii. 
12 . 
Original stem hardly half a line in height; very brittle when dry. Leaves 
expanding., lower ones spear-shaped. Barren Jlowers in the bosom of 
the leaves. Fruit-stalks terminal, at first straight, then arching down¬ 
wards, becoming straighter again when old and dry. Capsule pear- 
shaped. Lid convex, beak slender, crooked. Fringe single, with six¬ 
teen teeth. Veil splitting at the side, bent like the beak of the lid. 
(Recurved Thread-moss. B. curvatum. Dicks. Grimmia recurvata. 
Hedw. Sm. Weissia recurvata. Muse. Brit. Brid. E.) Barren grassy 
places. Calcareous rocks. Spring—Aut. 
B. au'reum. Capsules pear-shaped: lid conical: shoot but little 
branched : leaves strap-shaped. 
( E . Bot. 389. E.)— Dill. 50. 60— Hedw. Stirp. 1. 3— Hall. Enum. 4. 7, at 
p. 118, Hist. 45. 7, at iii. p. 41. 
In this and in M. crudum, the stem is half as long as the fruit-stalk. Beau¬ 
tifully shining. Leaves of a greenish golden hue. Linn. Forming a firm 
turf. Distinguishable by its long slender leaves. Fruit-stalks an inch or 
more in length, terminating, purple shining, issuing from a brownish green 
involucrum. Stellated shoots with longer leaves. Weis. Fruit-stalks 
serpentine, pale red to golden yellow. Capsules pear-shaped, green, 
changing to yellow red. Dill. 
(Golden Thread-moss. B. aureum. Huds. Schreb. Dicks. Turn. Sm. 
B. Mnoides. With. B. pyriforme. Muse. Brit, xxviii ? E.) Webera py- 
riformis. Hedw. Mnium pyriforme. Linn. With. Ed. ii. Rocks in 
Nottingham Park. Berwyn Mountain, in the road between Bala and 
Llangunnry, and on Snowdon. Mr. Wood. 
P. March—June, Qand July. Mr. Wood.]] 
Var. 2. Capsules egg-cylindrical. 
17. Ox. xv. 6,/. 20. 
This plant has the foliage of B. Hypnoides, and the capsules of B. sericeum. 
The structure, however, of the fringe, accords with the former. It varies 
much in size, the shoots from half to one inch high, and the fruit-stalks 
from one to two inches. 
Specimens from Mr. Griffith, who found it on turbaries about Llyn Aled, 
Denbighshire ; also about Llanberris. Dillenius in Hist. Muse, inadver¬ 
tently refers the above figure to his own 51. 72, but it is very different 
from that. 
B. argen'teum. Capsules egg-sliaped : shoots cylindrical, tiled, smooth : 
leaves egg-spear-shaped, hair-pointed. 
