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H Y P N UM blandum.
Bland Feather Moss.
CRYPTOGAMIA Musa. ■
Gen. Char. Fruitstalks lateral. Peristome double;
outer one of 16 teeth; inner, a membrane cut
into 16 equal segments, and usually with intermediate
filiform processes. Calyptra dimidiate.
Spec. Char. Stems somewhat pinnated. Leavesimbri-
cated, slightly spreading, elliptical, very concave
above, with continuous margins, abruptly acuminated,
minutely serrulated, without striae, the
nerve discontinued below the summit. Fruitstalk
rough; Lid conical, obtuse with an apiculus.
Syn. Hypnum blandum. Jjyell MSS. Hook in FI.
Lond. N. S. Am. Disp. Muse. 60. Hook, and
Tayl. Muse. Brit. ed. 2 . 176.
T h i s very pretty Moss was discovered by C. Lyell, Esq.
on a bank in Cadnam Lane, New Forest, Hampshire. It
has since been found, but without fructification, in Cornwall
by the Rev. Mr. Tozer, and more recently, in 1830, by Mr.
W. Wilson in Anglesey, bearing fruit in moderate plenty,
on rocky pasture-ground and in grassy spots near the sea,
between Aberffraw and Holyhead.
Stems procumbent; the branches bending downwards,
usually about one inch, never more than two inches long,
slightly thickened above, and densely crowded together.
Leaves of a bright pleasant green, shining, very concave,
almost to the apex, like the bowl of a spoon, not reflexed
in the margin, their texture exceedingly thin and membranous,
with a narrow nerve of nearly equal thickness through