CRYPTOGAMIA Musci.
Gen. Char. Caps, oblong. Fringe of 16 flat, cloven
teeth, a little inflexed.
Spec. Char. Stem branched. Leaves ovate,• longO--
pointed, even, sickle-shaped and curved to one side.
Fruit-stalks several from each sheath.
S y n . Dicranum majus. Sm. FI. Brit. 12 0 2 . Turn.
Muse. Hibern. 58.
Bryum reclinatum, foliis falcatis scoparum effigie, setis
pluribus. Dill. Muse. 358. t. 46. f . 16. D.
To this fine species vve alluded in v. 5. p. 354. Our specimen
was gathered on rocks near the sea at Bangor by Mr. Turner;
the Rev. Mr. Dalton has sent the same from Yorkshire, and
Mr. Borrer from Sussex. It bears fruit in the middle of
summer, and is perennial.
The whole plant is larger than the common D. scoparium,
and generally of a lighter and brighter green. Leaves all
leaning to one side, falcate; broad and ovate in their lower
part, even, not undulated, and furnished with a slender nerve.
Each terminates in a very long roughish point. Fruit-stalks
yellow, commonly 2 or 3 from the same sheath, which consists
of many imbricated leaves. Capsule rather shorter than in
D. scoparium, as well as thicker and somewhat more curved,
dark brown, smooth and even. Lid awl-shaped, as long as
the capsule. Veil brownish, slender. Fringe red.