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BRYUM» cubitale.
Elbow-shaped Thread-moss.
CRYPT0GAM1A Musci.
Gen. Char. Outer fringe of l6 teeth, broad at the
base ; inner a toothed membrane. Flowers terminal.
Capsule ovate-oblong, smooth. Veil smooth.
Spec. Char. Stem ascending, somewhat branched.
Leaves lanceolate, entire, decurrent. Fruitstalk
bent. Capsule clubshaped, pendulous.
Svn. Bryum cubitale. Dicks. Crypt, fasc. 2. 9* 5-»
f . 2. Sm. FI. Brit. 1364. With. 840. Hull. 26f .
T h is large species of Bryum, distinguished by a singular
bending near the base of its fruitstalks, was gathered by Mr.
Dickson on moist banks near Aberfeldy in North Britain. We
know of no other botanist who has observed it.
The habit approaches that of bimum, t. 1518, the stems
being two or three inches high, clothed with rusty down, leafy,
and irregularly branched. Leaves spreading, bright green, pellucid,
reticulated, with a strong red mid-rib, and a thickened
entire margin of the same hue. The apex is crowned with a
minute point; the base is slightly decurrent. Fruitstalks solitary
at the top of last-year’s shoots, three or four inches long, of a
shining tawny brown; bent near the bottom. Capsule pendulous,
club-shaped, tapering at the base, pale brown, smooth, red at
the margin, with a light-yellow fringe.