G Y M N O S T O M UM fasciculare.
Blunt Bear-shaped Beardless-moss.
CRYPTOGAMIA Musci,
Gen. Char. Caps, without a fringe. L i d deciduous.
r e i l separating entire from the base.
Spec. Char. Stem simple, very short. Leaves ovate
acute, minutely serrated. Capsule pear-shaped. Lid
convex, blunt.
Syn. Gymnostomum fasciculare. Sm. F l . B r i t . 1165.
Bryum fasciculare. D ick s . C ry p t .fu s e . 3. 3. t. 7. f. j.
W i th . 815. H u ll. 257.
B. iEgypti. Hasselquist’ s Voyage, 263.
been more celebrated, very few less un-
derstood, than this. The herbarium of Linmeus shows it to ha
what Hasselquist gathered on the walls of Jerusalem and suS
o fSthemwall-” a n HySS0p0f S° lomon “ springe* out
andother, :\ ’ -ldea which Linmeus adopted,
howevt has W nm Var‘° f places- Our great mister
H a lseW iiil d i/S a aS?ray hV ve,T inaccurately referring
£ Mr D iX lPe“ t0 his own Bryum truncal
th^kme m S , S p \ Wh° ? uId,n0t bc aware of this, finding
B.mis ftaaskceinc ufloarr et. i , ; / i s.u mr u t ^ a tThe ^GSermf ean' ^bo tanists havoef
mheTnn varied Pi a n ° fi D‘ckson a m°st slight variety, or
r variety at all, of B. pyriforme, figured by Hedwig
l L ^ Z T ! Z faSCJuUlarel 4 ‘ Musc. *•% for which las!
to Mr. D. Turnermed ^ autbentlc sPecnnens, we are indebted
J Z W ®“ leare is annual, ripening its fruit in the
Ireland but it d ^ 1 vanous Parts of Great Britain and
r i^ Z e M l un0t 0ften occur- 11 differs from G. py-
s]j„htlv sprrated '^ k 6*11^ ™ore sender, with narrower leaves,
toothed tw is te d k ° Se Pyriforme we now find minutely
culated * Fn it n.be,n soarcely concave, strongly reti-
Ssh t i J n f k Sl?nder’ of a shining red. Capsule red-
slivhtlvenn pear-,shaped> « contracted tbove the base. Lid
but of - H Vdl Io”'