TRICIIOSTOMUM microcarpon.
Small-fruited Hoary Fringe-moss.
CRYPTOGAMIA Musci.
Gen. Char. Caps, oblong. Fringe o f 32 capillary,
straightish teeth, approximated or united in pairs.
Spec. Char. Leaves lanceolate, keeled, acute, with a
slightly pellucid point. Capsule ovate. Stem much
branched, spreading.
Syn. Trichostomum microcarpon. Hedw. Sp. Muse. 1 12 .
t. 2 3 . / . 1— 5 . Sm. FI. Brit. 1243. Turn. Muse.
Hib. 40.
Bryum hypnoides S. Linn. FI. Suec. 392.
B. hypnoides y. Huds. 480.
B. macrocarpon. With. 822. Hull. 260.
B. hypnoides alpinum, setis et capsulis exiguis. Dill.
Muse. 3 70. t. 4 f i . f 29.
A RARE inhabitant of the rocky mountains of Scotland and
Wales, found by Dillenius on Snowdon, where Mr. Griffith
has since gathered it. Mr. G. Don collected our specimens
on the highland mountains in August 1802, within about two
yards of the snow which had already clothed their summits.
The stems are leafy and repeatedly branched, loosely
spreading, and forming lax tufts. Leaves imbricated every
way, but little spreading, lanceolate, entire, single-ribbed,
keeled, acute, mostly tipped with a short white pellucid entire
point or hair. They are of a pale green, turning black
with age, and permanent. Fruit-stalks not half an inch long,
pale brown, curved and twisted. Capsule erect, ovate, short,
pale brown, rather wide-mouthed. Fringe red, delicate. Lid
awl-shaped, straight. Veil of the same form, unequally
toothed at the edge.
The name macrocarpon in Withering can only be an error
of the press.