was the first to ascertain the discovery on our return from the
Mountains, where we had all hastily gathered it for an unusually
fine state of Dicranum varium. It is with this moss
that D . Schreberianum has the greatest affinity. It is however,
well distinguished from it, by the dilated and undulated
base of the leaves, which moreover embrace the stem, and
spread equally on every side; whereas in D . varium, they are
narrow-lanceolate or lanceolato-subulate, not in the least waved
at the margin towards the base, are more rigid, erect, and in a
greater or less degree seciind. (directed to one side.)
Fig. I. Dicranum Schreberianum, nat. size. Fig. 2. A plant magnified. F ig 3
L ^ e r l e a f . Fig. 4. Upper leaf. Fig. 5. Calyptra. Fig. 6. Portion o f
the penstome.— A ll except Fig. \. more or less magnified.
