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P H A S C U M subulatum.
Awl-leaved Earth-moss.
CRYPT0GAM1A Musci.
G en. Ch a r . Capsule ovate, without any separate lid,
deciduous. Veil minute, deciduous.
Spec. Char. Stem simple. Capsule on a short stalk.
Leaves awlshaped, spreading; dilated at the base;
capillary at the point.
Syn. Phascum subulatum. Linn. Sp. PI, 1570. Sm.
FI. Brit. 1149. Hedw. Sp. Muse. 19. Crypt,
v. 1.93. t. 35. Huds. 466. With. 785. Hull. 251.
Relh. 412. Sibth.2 ^ 2. Albbot. 229. Curt. Bond,
fasc. 4. t. 67- Ehrh. Crypt. 182. Turn. Muse.
Hib, 1.
Sphagnum acaulon trichodes. Dill. Muse. 251.
t. 32. f . 10.
FREQUENT and abundant in shady hollows of sandy banks
in woods or on heaths, bearipg fruit in the early spring.
The roots are fibrous and annual. Plants forming rather
loose velvet-like patches, of a lightish green hue. Stem
scarcely one eighth of an inch high, simple, leafy, throwing
out roots from the lower part, Leaves imbricated, numerous,
spreading, awlshaped, entire, dilated and concave at the base,
tapering and somewhat toothed at the point, single-ribbed.
Capsule solitary, erect, brown and shining, elliptic-ovate, on
a short stalk; the point pale or yellowish.