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PLcellfol. U. MUSCI. 375. Bryum. ^69
main rib not reaching the tip; upper leaves narrowest,
longest; capsule oblong, pearshape, drooping.
Bryum pendulum hornum moUe, foliis et lanceolatis et gramineis, Di/len.
Muse, 401.
Milium crudum, Lin. S. P. 1576.
Bryum crudum, /fM(fsonj^/i^/. 491 ; Engl. Bot, \60\.
On mountain banks, and in the crevices of rocks.
9. Bryum carneum. Flesh thread-moss.
Stem simple; leaves lanceolate, networked, slightly serrated
at the tip ; main rib not reaching the tip ; capsule
reverse ovate, hanging.
Bryum nitidum, foliis serpylli pellucidis anguBtioribus, reflexis capitulis
subrotundis, carnei coloiis, in pediculis breviorlbus, Dillen in RaiiSyn.
102.
Bryum carneum, Lin. S. P. 1587 ; Eng. Bot. 360.
Bryum delicatulum, Hedw. S. Muse. 179.
Bryum pulchellnm, Hedw. Crypt. 3, 38.
On banks.
10. Bryum argenteum. Silvery thread-moss.
Stem branched ; leaves closely tiledlike, broad, ovate,
suddenly pointed, slightly serrated, very concave, main rib
not reaching the point ; capsule ovate, pearshaped, hanging.
Bryum capitulis subrotundis reflexis, cauliculis teretibus argenteis,
Raii Syn. 100, 47.
Bryum argenteum, Lin. S. P. 1586; Engl. Bot. 1602.
On open ground, rocks, walls, and roofs.
Leaves green at bottom, dry and white at the tip.
1 1 Bryum Zierii. Zier^s thread-moss.^
Stem branched; leaves closely tiledlike, broad, ovate,
rather pointed, very concave, networked, main rib reaching
nearly to the point; capsule clublike, drooping.
Bryum Zierii, Bickson Crypt. 2, 8 ;
On mountains.
Engl. Bot. 1021.
f. Capsule not furrowed ; outer teeth of the peristome as long
as the inner : leaves not awlshape, pointed^ edges not thick-^
ened; main rib reaching the tip or beyond it.
12. Bryum roseum. Rose thread-moss^
Leaves reverse ovate, spatulashape, pointed, serrated,
main rib reaching the point ; capsule oblong, ovate, hanging.
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