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DICRANUM cerviculatum.
'Red-necked Fork-moss.
CRYPT0GAM1A Musci.
Gen. Char. Caps, oblong. Fringe of 16 fiat, cloven
teeth, a little inflexed.
Spec. Char. Stem simple. Leaves capillary, without
ribs, loosely spreading. Capsule elliptical, turgid,
nearly upright, with a spur on one side at its base.
Svn. Dicranum cerviculatum. Hedw. Sp. Muse. 149.
Crypt, v. 3. 89. t. 37, A. Sm. FI. B rit. 1220.
Turn. Muse. H il. 64.
B r y u m c e rv ic u la tum . Dicks. Cryp t.fuse . 3 . 7 . With.
8 1 3 . Hull. 2 5 7 - A l l o t . 2 3 7 .
A NATIVE of dry turfy places, especially the borders of
pits where peat is cut, in Ireland, Wales, and even the midland
counties of England. The capsules are perfected copiously
in July, and the roots are perennial.
• The stems are simple, erect, 2 or 3 lines high, leafy,
forming broad close patches, which are rendered conspicuous
by the light shining yellowish green of the leaves and fruit-
stalks. Leaves dense, long and taper, loosely spreading,
entire, destitute of nerves or keel, a little dilated and concave
at the base. Fruitstalks about 3 quarters of an inch in height,
solitary, terminal, slender, pellucid, a little zigzag. Capsule
inclining, scarcely quite upright, elliptical, turgid, smooth,
pale shining brown, contracted at the mouth, furnished at
the base with a spur on one side, which is more or less red.
Lid as long as the capsule, taper, incurved. Fringe crimson.
Our specimens were communicated by John Templeton, Esq.
of Orange Grove near Belfast, a correspondent by whom we
have frequently been favoured.