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GRIMMIA lanceolata.
Lanceolate Bearded Grimmia.
CRYPTOGAMIA Musci.
G en. Char. F r in g e simple, o f 16 teeth, broadest at
their base. Flowers terminal. V e i l cylindrical.
Spec. Char. L e a v e s l a n c e o l a t e , c o n c a v e , b e a r d e d .
C a p s u l e o v a t e . L i d t a p e r i n g , o b l i q u e .
Syn. G r i m m i a l a n c e o l a t a . Sm. F I . B r i t . 1186.
L e e r s i a l a n c e o l a t a . Hedw. Crypt, v. 2. 66. t. 23. Ehrh.
Crypt. 133.
E n c a l y p t a l a n c e o l a t a . Sibth. 278. Hedw. Sp. Muse.
63. T u rn . Mu sc. H ibern. 19.
B r y u m l a n c e o l a t u m . D ick s . Crypt, fa s c . 3, 4. H . Sicc.
fa s c . 1 1 . 18. W i th . 824. H u l l . 260. R e lh . 422.
A b b o t . 240.
C o m m o n on dry barren heaths and banks, mud walls, and
similar places, where it bears fruit in May.
The roots are perennial, longish. Plants crowded, various
in height from a line to a quarter of an inch, simple, leafy.
Leaves lanceolate, broadish, rather blunt, entire, tipped with
a short white hair, which terminates the brownish midrib.
Fruit-stalk upright, red, a fittle longer than the usual height
of the stem, twisted by drying. Capsule erect, ovate, brown,
smooth, a little contracted at the mouth. Lid but half as long
as the capsule, awl-shaped or somewhat conical, inclining.
Hedwig justly indicates the resemblance of this plant to
Gymnostomum truncutulum, and (we may add) to the species
in our last plate ; but his generic characters, too long overlooked,
here prove eminently serviceable.