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E N C A L Y P T A alpha.
A Ipine Extinguisher-moss.
CRYPTOGAMIA Musci.
Gen. Char. Caps, cylindrical. Fringe o f 16 linear
upright teeth. Veil campanulate, inflated, wide.
Spec. Char. Veil roughish at the margin. Stem branched.
Lid as long as the capsule. Leaves ovato-lanceolate,
a cu te; the uppermost hair-pointed.
G a t h e r e d on rocks about the very summit of Ben Lawers
by Mr. G. Don in October 1804. We have never seen it
before, nor can we meet with any description answerable to it.
The whole plant is smaller than that in our last plate.
Stems branched, forming tufts scarcely an inch high. Leaves
dark-green with a red rib, lanceolate inclining to ovate, entire,
pointed ; the uppermost tipped each with a longish hair, in-
flexed when dry. Fruit-stalks terminal, red, half an inch
long. Capsule erect, somewhat elliptical, with a slender lid
of its own length. Veil with a longish point, the edge by no
means fringed, nor yet quite smooth, but a little rough or
uneven.
