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H Y P N U M bryoides.
D w a r f Hypnum.
C R Y P T O G A M I A Mufci.
G en. Char. Cap/, with a lid. V e ilimooth. Fruit-
Jialk from a lateral tubercle inverted with fcales.
Spec. Char. Frond perfe&ly Ample, pinnate, lanceolate.
Flower-ftalk terminal.
Syn. Hypnum bryoides. Linn. Sp. PI. 1588. Hudf.
493. With. 842. Hull. 267. Relh. 408. Abbot. 244.
H. taxiforme exiguum, verfus fummitatem capfuli-
ferum. Dill. Mufc. 262.,t. 34• ƒ• i-
H. repens filicifolium non ramofum, pediculis bre-
vioribus verfus foliorum fummitatem egredienti-
bus. Rail Syn. 88.
Dicranum bryoides. Sibth. 279-
T h i s humble mofs is found producing its capfules very
early in the fpring in moift ihady places, much more rarely
thaii H. taxifolium, t. 426, with which it nearly agrees in habit,
but may at once be diftinguifhed by the fruit-ftalk being
terminal, not radical. The leaflets are alfo more remote, and
diftinctly alternate. The tubercle from which the fruit-ftalk
grows is naked, having merely two or three little fcales at its
bafe. The lid and veil of the capfule are ftiorter, blunter and
more conical. The teeth are in a Ample row, therefore Hedwig
does not admit this or the neighbouring fpecies into the genus
of Hypnum as he underftands it, but makes a new one, called
Fijfidens from the cloven teeth. This feems fufficiently natural;
but Dr. Sibthorp unites it, with feveral very heterogeneous fpecies,
under Dieranum, another Hedwigian genus.