G Y M N O S T O M U M truncatulum.
L ittle Blunt-fruited Beardless-moss.
CRYPTOGAMIA Musci.
g £n ChAr . Caps, w i t h o u t a f r i n g e . L i d d e c i d u o u s
r e ' l s e p a r a t i n g e n t i r e f r o m t h e b a s e .
S pec. Char. Leaves ovate, pointed, flat, entire. Cap.
s u l e t o p - s h a p e d , w i t h a d i l a t e d m o u t h .
Syn. G y m n o s t o m u m t r u n c a t u l u m . Hoffm. Germ
' Vm ' F L B r i t ‘ 1 ! 5 8 - Sibth. 2 7 4 . Turn.
M u s e . H ib . 7 . t. 1 , f d — f .
G . t r u n c a t u m . H sdw. Sp. M u s e. 3 0 . C ryp t, v. 1. 13.
t. 5.
B r y u m t r u n c a t u l u m . Linn. Sp. P L J 5 8 4 . Huds
4 7 7 . W i th . 8 1 8 . H u l l 2 5 8 . R e lh . 4 2 4 . Abbot
2 4 2 . Curt. L a n d . fu s e . 2 . t. 1 1 .
B . e x i g u u m , c r e b e r r i m i s c a p s u l i s r u f i s . D i l l . Muse
3 4 7 . t. 4 5 .f . 7 . F — K .
B . p a r v u m , e r e c t i s s u b r o t u n d i s m a j u s c u l i s c a p i t u l i s
s u b f u s c i s , f o l u s s e r p i l l i p e l l u c i d i s . D i l l , in R aii
Syn. 93.
F r e q u e n t about banks, dry ditches, and fallow fields,
bearing fruit early in the spring.
The roots are annual. The plants scarcely grow crowded,
but rather scattered, and have short, mostly simple, stems.
.Leaves bright green, spreading, ovate or rather somewhat ob-
ovate, flat or slightly keeled, not concave, acute with a small
point, but not tipped with a hair, furnished with a mid-rib,
their margins entire. When dry they are slightly twisted, but
not closed together. Fruit-stalk terminal, erect, longer than
the stem, almost always solitary. Capsule brown, smooth,
short, ovate at the base, its mouth abrupt, dilated, wider in
diameter than any other part of the capsule. Lid broad, convex,
with an oblique, obtuse, roundish beak, all together about
aSTn!^ 3S the caPsu*e- Veil brownish, splitting obliquely.
this moss has been celebrated as the “ Hyssop of Solomon
which sprmgeth out of the wall," but what'that really is may
be seen in our 18th vol. t. 1245.
„W e beg leave to correct an error respecting Gymnostomum
Griffitliiamim, t. 1038. The Rev. Mr. Dalton and Mr.
Hooker found it on rocks on the west side of Ingleborough,
Yorkshire, not in Scotland.