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DICRANUM pellucidum.
Pellucid Fork-moss.
CRYPTOGAMIA Musci.
G e n . C h a r . Caps, o b long . Fringe o f 16 flat, cloven
tee th, a little inflexed.
Spec. Char. Stem with several level-topped branches,
leaves ovato-lanceolate, acute, incurved when dry.
Capsule ovate, smooth;
S y n . Dicranum pellucidum. Hediv. Sp. Muse. 142.
Sm. FI. Brit. 1223. Turn. Muse. Hibern. 68.
D. aquaticum. Ehrh. Crypt. 213.
Bryum pellucidum. Linn. Sp. PL 1583. Huds. 481.
Hull. 264. Abbot. 237. Hicks. H. Sicc.J'asc. 12,
^ 22.
B. palustre p e llucid um, capsulis et foliis brevibus re-
curvis. Dill. Muse. 364. t. 46. ƒ 23.
B. erectis capitulis subrotundis fuscis, foliis minoribus
pellucidis rugosis. Raii Syn. 96.
Mnium pellucens. With. 802.
T h i s also we received from Mr. Winch, bearing ripe capsules
in March. It is an inhabitant of watery shady places in
mountainous or alpine situations.
The perennial slender leafy upright stems form dense tufts,
and are more or less divided into erect branches, which all rise
nearly to an equal height. The lower part of the stems is
clothed with dense rusty down. Leaves loosely and alternately
imbricated, lanceolate, dilated at the base, transparent, of a
yellowish or blackish green according to circumstances, keeled,
single-ribbed, acute or sometimes pointed, variously twisted
by drying soon after they are gathered, their margin (according
to Mr. Sowerby and Mr. Turner) finely serrated toward
the point. This I am not able to detect. Fruitstalks terminal,
pale yellowish green. Capsule nodding, ovate, slightly
curved, quite smooth, with a spreading margin. Lid as
long as the capsule, incurved. Fringe purplish, large and
handsome, tipped with yellow.