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B R Y U M extinftorium.
Extinguißier Bryum.
C R Y P TOGA MI A Mufti.
G en. Char. C a p f. with a lid . V e il fm o o th . F r u it ■
ß a lk from a termina l tu b e rc le .
Spec. Char. Capfule cylindrical, entirely covered by
the bell-ftiaped beaked veil. Leaves lanceolate,
with a ftrong rib, entire.
S yn. B r y um e x tin d lo rium . L in n . S ft. P l . i t f t i . F fyA r
475- W ith . 8 16. R e lh . 4 0 2 . D ic k f. H . Sicc.
f a ß . 8. 18. A b b o t 239.
B . ered lis cap itu lis , ca lyp trä la x ä co n ic a , foliis S e r -
p illi p e llu c id is angu ftio r ib u s . R a il S y n . 92.
B . ca lyp trä extindtorii figu ra minus. D ill. M u ß . 3 4 9 .
45’ƒ• 8.
Encalypta vulgaris. Sibth. 2 77.
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A; O U N D under the fhade of rocks or walls in a dry fandy
foil in many different places, perfecting its capfules in March
and April. Mr. Teefdale F. L. S. communicated it to us.
Root fibrous. Plants growing in tufts, generally Ample and
lhort, with a few thick-fet, lanceolate, entire leaves, curling in
when dry, and furnifhed with a very ftrong round reddifh midrib.
Stalk about an inch high, red, Capfule cylindrical,
bluntifh, with a flender cylindrical beak, and very minute teeth
round the orifice. The pale femitranfparent veil belt diftinguifhes
this fpecies; it is beaked at the top, bell-fhaped, cut off horizontally
below, and hangs down much below the bafe of the capfule.
. The plant figured by Dillenius t. 4 3. f . 9, is efteemed a variety
by • Linnaeus, Hudfon, and Withering, though Hedwig
makes it a fpecies. It is in every part more luxuriant, the
item branched, mouth of the capfule more evidently fringed,
and veil tom at the bafe into about 6 fegments. In other re-
fpefits it agrees, except in flowering later; for the difference of
retaining its colour when dried we have found to be fallacious,
the common B. extznStoriuTn when quickly dried remaining as
green as any mofs whatever for many years.