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GYMNOSTOMUM curvirostrum.
Curve-beaked Hecirdless-moss.
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CR L PTOGAM1A Musci.
G e v . Char. Caps, without a fringe. L id deciduous.
, y eil separating entire from the base.
Spec. Char, Stem branched, tufted. Leaves awl-
shaped, recurved, in interrupted clusters. Lid awl.
shaped, curved.
Syn. Gymnostomum curvirostrum. Ilediv. Sp. Muse 33
Crypt, v. 2. 68. t 24. Sm. FL Brit. 1 164.
S æ2S' 4 Um' L in n ‘ Sp' PL 1585* W ilh ' 826.
B. palustre. Huds. ed. 1. 411.
B. palustre æstivuin, conferva; facie. D ill Muse 3*7 n
t. 47. f . 36. ■ '
B angustissimts foliis crebrioribus, capitulis erectis
brevibus, pediculis e surculis novis et longis enas-
centibus. Dill, in Raii Syn. 99.
B. vei ticillatum. Dicks. Id. Sicc. Jasc. 5 . 19
Pottia çurvirostra. D h rh . Crypt. 93.
D o u b t s have been started by Mr. Eagle, at present deeply
intent on the subject of Mosses, and by whose labours we hop?
hereafter to profit, whether the German moss, indicated by the
first and the last of the above synonyms, be not a distinct species
from that of Dillen.us and Dickson, to which all the rest
belong. We would not anticipate our able friend’s discovery:
(b t 0 f P; e; enl f roj;’ r the point may be decided, we
xhibit a t /. 1 Mr. Dickson’s Cumberland plant, and at f. 3
a German specimen of Ehrhart’s. Both grew on alpine wet
rooks, and are encrusted with white calcareous earth.
f he stems are branched, an inch or two high, composing
dense tufts. Leaves alternate, crowded here and there into
clusters, awlshaped, recurved, keeled, single-ribbed, pointed,
entire or nearly so, light greet, permanent, yellowish brown
when old. Fruitstalks from among the clusters of leaves,
w ether latera or terminal, erect, capillary, straightish. Capsule
upright, elliptical, abrupt, narrow-mouthed, red at top and
bottom, when old of a dark shining chesnut all over. Lid the
length of the capsule, awlshaped, obliquely curved.