BRYUM attenuatum.
Slender Proliferous Thread-moss.
CRYPTOGAMTA Musci.
G en. Char. Outer fringe of 16 teeth, broad at the
base: inner a toothed membrane. Flowers terminal.
Capsule ovate-oblong, smooth. Veil smooth.
Spec. Char. Stem simple, proliferous. Leaves stellate,
ovate, entire, reticulated. Capsule club-
shaped, somewhat cylindrical, erect.
SvN. Bryum attenuatum. Dicks. Crypt, fasc. 4. 8.
t. 1 0 ./. 8. Sm.Fl. Brit. 1360.
C O L L E C T ED by Mr. Dickson in bogs on the mountains
of Scotland. Mr. D. Turner, who has examined the fringe,
assures us it is that of a Bryum ; further we know nothing,
except from a drawing made by Mr. Sowerby from an original
specimen. ,
The stems are simple, slender, about an inch high, throwing
out roots here and there, and apparently making annual shoots,
each of which is marked by a sort of tuft or whorl of crowded
leaves, which are ovate, acute, entire, single-ribbed, pellucid
and reticulated. Capsule on a solitary, slender, pale, terminal
stalk, obovate, slender, tapering at the base, smooth, contracted
at the mouth. Lid small, convex. Fringe not sufficiently
advanced to be observed.
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