0 R T H O T R I C H U M anomalum.
Rough Single-fringed Bristle-moss.
CRYPTOGAMIA Musci.
Gen. Char. Caps, oblong, terminal. Outer fringe
o f 16 teeth: inner o f 8 or 16 bristles; or none.
Veil angular, mostly clothed with erect hairs.
Spec. Char. Stem branched. Leaves lanceolate, keeled,
revolute. Fringe simple. Veil hairy, toothed.
Syn, Orthotrichum anomalum. Sm. FI. Brit. 1267.
Hedw. Sp. Muse. 162. Crypt, v. 2. 102. t. 37.
Dicks. Crypt, fuse. 4. 6. Turn. Muse. Hib. 94.
Bryum striatum (3. Linn. Sp. PI. 1580.
B. tectorum. With. 810.
Poly trichum striatum (3. Huds. 4 71. Relh. ed. 1. 397.
P. tectorum. Hull. 248.
P. Bryi ruralis facie, capsulis sessilibus, minus. Dill.
Muse. 431. t. 55. f . 9.
P. capsulis subrotundis, pediculis brevissimis insidenti-
bus, calyptra striata, arboreum et terrestre, minus
ramosum, et breve. Rail Syn. 91.
Weissia anomala. Sibth. 287.
N o t rare on old buildings and stones, bearing fruit in February
and March. We first found it on rocks near Edinburgh
22 years ago. It grows in dense perennial tufts, of ä dull
0 brownish green. It agrees with 0 . nudum, t. 1325, in having
no internal fringe, but differs in its revolute leaves and hairy
veil, which becomes toothed or torn, and at length loses its
hairs, by age. The fruit-stalks when full-grown are longer
than in most of the genus. The lid is flat with a slender beak.