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[ 1620 ]
HYPNUM niaoro-viride.
Dark-green Silky Feather-moss.
CRYPTOGAMIA Musci.
G en. Char. Caps, ovate-oblong, from a lateral scaly
sheath. Outer fringe of 16 teeth, dilated at the base :
inner a variously-toothed membrane. Veil smooth.
StEC. Char. Stem procumbent, pinnated. Leaves ovate,
pointed, concave, ribless, slightly curved to one side.
Lid conical, pointed.
S yn. Hypnum nigro-viride. Dicks. Crypt, fasc. 4s. 18.
Sm. FI. Brit. 128,5. Turn. Muse. Hib. 141.
H. myosuroides £. Huds. 508. var. 2. With. 865.
Hull. 274.
H. myosuroides sericeum tenuius, capsulis erectis.
Dill. Muse. 318. t. 41. f . 53.
F o r the specimen here represented we are obliged to. Charles
Lyell, Esq., who found it in the New Forest, Hants, in
March last. The species is not unfrequently to be met with
on rocks, old walls, or on the ground in shady places.
The stems are an inch or two in length, creeping, throwing
up short simple branches curved at their ends. The leaves
are very closely imbricated every way, but all more or less
curved to one side, ovate, concave, entire, without any nerve ;
when young they are of a bright shining green; when old, of
a dark rusty or yellowish brown. Sheath of many pale
lanceolate leaves. Fruit-stalk an inch long, upright, red,
smooth. Capsule erect, cylindrical inclining to ovate, smooth,
reddish, a little curved by age, but not drooping. Lid
conical.