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DICRANUM FULVUM.
Dicranum caule elongato erecto ramoso, foliis undique
insertis lanceolato-subulatis integerrimis concavis
flexuosis siccitate crispatis, nervo crasso, pericbæti-
allbus vaginantibus aristatis, seta breviuscula, capsula
' oblonga cylindracea erecta. (Tab. CXLIX.)
H ab. In Nova Scotia. B . Menzies, 1785.
Caules sesquiuncialcs, erecti, snbramosi. Folia flavo-fulva, un-
(liqiie inserta, erecto-patentia flexuosa, siccitate valde crispata,
e lata basi lanceolata longe subulata, concava, integerrima,
nervo crasso concolore instructa. Perichætialia longe vaginata,
nervo in acumen vel potius aristam longam flexuosam
excurrente. Sela ob innovationes caulis sæpe infra apicem,
breviuscula, erecta. Capsula oblongo-cylindracea, fusca.
Calyptra dimidiata, Peristomium operculumqiie desunt.
My specimens of this moss are not so perfect as I could wish.
—That it is a Dicranum, however, will scarcely admit of a
doubt; and that it is of the same family as D.scoparium, to which
species perhaps it approaches nearer than to any other. It is, nevertheless,
much smaller, of a remarkably fulvous colour, with
leaves very much crisped when dry, and with a strong nerve,
which at once distinguishes it from all its affinities,
Fig. 1, plants, nat. size. Fig. 2, portion of a plant with the
perichætium. . Fig. 3, leaf. Fig. 4, leaf of the perichætium.
Fig. 5, calyptra. Fig>6> capsule.—magn.
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