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CRYPTOGAMIA Musci.
Gen. Char. Caps, oblong. Fringe o f 32 capillary,
straightish teeth, approximated or united in pairs.
Spec. Char. Leaves lanceolate, with a pellucid toothed
point. Capsule ovate. Stem procumbent, branched
in a pinnate manner.
Syn. Trichostomum lanuginosum. Hediv.Sp.Musc. 109,
Crypt, v. 3. 3. t. 2. Sm. Ft. Brit. 1240. Turn.
Muse. Hibern. 38.
T. serratum. Ehrh. Crypt. 94.
Bryum hypnoides. Linn. Sp. PI, 1584, a. Huds.
480, With. 819, var. 1. Hull. 259. Abbot. 242.
B. hypnoides polycephalon, lanuginosum, montanum.
D ill. Muse. 372. t. 47. ƒ . 32.
B. hypnoides, capitulis plurimis erectis, lanuginosum.
Raii Syn. 97.
T h i s is a very common moss in dry mountainous woods,
and on exposed rocks, walls, and heaths, but the capsules are
rare. We have them from Wales and Northumberland. They
are perfected in autumn.
Stems perennial, often a span long, procumbent, or spreading
in an arched position, divided into several principal
branches, and those subdivided into numerous short ones,
ranged alternately in a sort of pinnate manner, though not with
great regularity; their summits incurved. Leaves of a dull
yellowish green, a little curved inward, imbricated, lanceolate,
or linear-lanceolate, keeled, single-ribbed, entire, terminating
in a very long pellucid white point, whose margins are closely
set with little blunt projecting teeth like those of a wheel, totally
different from the serratures of all the other species,
Fruitstalks from the small branches, solitary, half an inch
long, tawny, twisted. Capsule erect, ovate, thick and short,
smooth, yellowish brown. Lid awlshaped, straight, Fringe
red. Veil conical, brown, toothed at the edge.