GYMNOSTOMUM Griffithianum.
Succulent Beardless-moss.
CRYPTOGAMIA Musà.
Gen. Char. Caps, w i t h o u t a f r i n g e . Lid d e c i d u o u s .
Veil 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. L e a v e s s p a t u l a t e , o b t u s e , f l e s h y , w i t h
a s i n g l e r i b . C a p s u l e o b o v a t e . L i d b l u n t .
Syn. G y m n o s t o m u m G r i f E t h i a n u m . Sm FI. Brit. 1 1 6 2 .
B r y u m G r i f E t h i a n u m . Dicks. Crypt, fasc. 4 . 8. t. 10.
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S p l a c h n u m f r c e l i c h i a n u m . With. 7 9 4 . Hull. 2 4 6 >
' b u t n o t o f H e d w i g .
T h e gentleman whose name this curious moss bears, and who
sent our present specimens, first discovered it on the east side
of Snowdon, near the summit. Mr. W . J. Hooker found it
this summer very sparingly on Ben Lawers in Scotland, no
other botanist than Mr. Griffith and Mr. Hooker having ever
gathered the plant in any country.
Root fibrous, perhaps annual. Stems short, simple, or
branched from the base, leafy. Leaves imbricated, palish,
pellucid and succulent, obovate or spatulate, obtuse, wavy,
entire, finely marked with round reticulations, and furnished
with a central rib which does not reach the top. Fruitstalk
splitary, terminal, succulent, curved. Capsule erect, obovate,
brown, smooth. Lid convex, with a little blunt point. Veil
conical, acute, brown, white at the base, tipped with the
withered stigma. Some plants bear green terminal grain-like
bodies, resembling the anthers of a Sphagnum.