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P H A S C U M strict ute.
Upright Earth-moss.
CRYPTOGAMIA Musci.
G en. Char. Capsule ovate, without any separate lid,
deciduous. Veil minute, deciduous.
S p e c . Ch a r . Stem very short. Capsule ovate. Leaves
awl-shaped, upright, straight, slightly serrated.
Syn. Phascum strictum. Dicks. Crypt, fasc. 4 . 1. t. 10.
f 1. Sm. FI. Brit. 1151.
M r • DICKSON only seems to have gathered this species of
the minute genus Phascum, and we are oblio-ed to him for the
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specimens described in the Flora Britannica, and delineated
here. He mentions alpine bogs in Scotland as its native
station.
The root is annual, fibrous, tufted. Plants not a line in
height, with scarcely any stem, growing in tufts, of a dark,
dull, or blackish, green. Leaves several, erect, straight, or
slightly incurved, awl-shaped, single-ribbed, reticulated,
furnished towards the point with a few shallow serratures,
visible only by the help of a high magnifier. Fruit-stalk
solitary, erect, short. Capsule ovate, dark brown when ripe,
greatly overtopped by'the leaves.