S P L A C H N U M lingulatum,
Tongue-leaved Gland-moss.
CRYPTOGAMIA Musci.
Gen. Char. Caps, cylindrical, placed on a fleshy
receptacle. Fringe simple, of 16 teeth, standing
in pairs.
iSpec. Char. Receptacle inversely conical, brown,
narrower than the capsule. Leaves tongue-shaped,
obtuse, entire, pointless.
Syn. Splachnum lingulatum. Dicks. Crypt, fasc. 4. 4.
t. 1 0 ./ . 6. Sm. FI. B r it. 1177.
S e n t from the Highland mountain of Ben Lawers by
Mr. G. Don. We have also been favoured with a specimen
by Mr. Dickson, its original finder and describer.
This species forms tufts, supposed to be annual like the
rest of its genus. Roots black, dense. Stems simple or
divided, not an inch high. Leaves of a fine pellucid green,
with strong oblong reticulations, tongue-shaped, rather concave,
obtuse, entire, single-ribbed, without any terminal hair
or point; the lower ones rather more acute. Fruitstalks solitary,
terminal, above an inch high, of a fine deep crimson
when fresh, not quite straight. Receptacle so small and
narrow as to seem merely the elongated base of the capsule,
which is of the same brown or chesnut hue, oblong, with
a widish mouth. Fringe short, iiiflexed, brown.