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G YMN O S T OMUM conicum.
Conical-lidded Gymnostomum.
CRYPTOGAMIA Musci.
Gen. Char. Fruit-stalk terminal. Mouth of the capsule
naked, or, at most, in an early stage, closed
with a more or less completely formed horizontal
membrane. Calyptra dimidiate.
Spec. Char. Stems very short, simple. Leaves ob-
longo-ovate,apiculate,the margins reflexed. Capsule
more or less ovate ; lid conical.
Syn. a. Capsule ovate. Tab. nostr.fig. 1.
Gymnostomum conicum. Schwoegr. Suppl, v. 1.
26. t. 9. Brid. Meth. 13. Nees § Hornsch.
Bryol. Germ. v. 1.127. t. 9. f . 4. Hook. 8g Taylor,
Muse. Brit. ed. 2. 23.
(3. capsule turbinate.
Gymnostomum minutulum. Schwoegr. Suppl, v. 1.
25. t. 9. Brid. Meth. 12. Funck, Deutschl.
Moose, t. 4 . / . 6. Nees 8g Hornsch. Bryol. Germ,
v. 1. 123. t. 9. f . 2.
T h i s minute plant grows in scattered patches. Stem
scarcely any. Leaves springing, as it were, from the summit
of the little tufted annual fibrous root, oblongo-ovate,
patent, purplish green, quite entire, the margins recurved,
the midrib strong and running out into an apiculus at the
point. Fruit-stalk solitary, about twice the length of the
leaves, erect, slightly flexuose. Capsule ovate, or, as in
the var. (3., approaching to turbinate, reddish brown, obscurely
striated, not furrowed. Lid exactly conical, whence
the name of the species.