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T R I C H O S T OMUM fasciculare.
Beardless Hoary Fringe-moss.
CRYPTOGAMIA Musa.
Gen. Char. Caps, oblong. F r in g e o f 32 capillary,
straightish teeth, approximated or united in pairs.
Spec. Char. Leaves lanceolate, pointed, revolute,
keeled. Capsule ovate-oblong. Stem branched,
diffuse.
Syn. Trichostomum fasciculare. Schrad. Spicil. 61.
Sm. F l . B r i t . 1243. Hedw. Sp. Muse. 1 1 0 . Turn.
• M u s e . H ib . 39. Winch Gu ide, v. 1 . 104.
Bryum fasciculare. Hoffm. Germ. v. 2 . 42.
B. hypnoides @. L in n . S p . PL 1585. H u ds. 480.
W ith. 8 2 0 , var. 7. H u ll. 259.
B. lutescens. D ick s . Cryp t, fa s c . 4. 14.
B. hypnoides, hirsutie virescens, fasciculare alpinum.
D i l l . M u s e. 370. t. 4 7 . / . 28.
N O T uncommon on dry rocky mountains in the north. The
Rev. Mr. Dalton and Mr. Hooker communicated it from In-
gleborough, Yorkshire. We have the same also from Wales,
Scotland and Ireland. It is perennial, bearing abundance of
fruit in the spring, and the empty capsules remain long on the
stalks.
The stems spread widely, forming elastic entangled tufts,
and are leafy, furnished with numerous short branches. The
lower parts and old leaves are black. The young leaves are of
a light yellowish green, imbricated, straight, lanceolate, entire,
revolute, single-ribbed, keeled, more or less pointed, but not
tipped with a pellucid or white appendage. Fruitstalks copious,
solitary, nearly terminal, half an inch or more in length,
twisted and bent, brown. Capsule ovate or somewhat cylindrical,
erect, brown, very smooth. Lid awlshaped, very taper-
pointed, straight, yellowish, as long as the capsule. Fringe
about a third as long, reddish.