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ICONES MUSCORUM.
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HYPNUM BOSCH, Schwægr.

Tab. 106.

Plantæ robustiores, molles, e viridi aureo-fusccscentes, cæspites demissos laxos formantes.

Caulis prostratus, 2–4 uncias longus, vetustior fragilis sub-defoliatus, parce divisus, fasciculato- vel subpinnato-ramulosus; ramulis elongatis subsimplicibus iuaequalibus obtusis turgide tereti-foliosis.

Folia arete imbricata, e basi eordata amplexante oblongo-ovata, repente filiformi-apiculata, coclileariformi-concava, scariosa, nitida, breviter bicostata, vel costa unica tenui ultramedia instructa, marginibus erectis toto ambitu serrulata, exilissime lineari-areolata; cellulis basilaribus brevioribus incrassatis fuscoluteis: perichætialia longe tenui-acuminata, inferiora squarrosa, superiora erecta.

Flores dioici; feminei paraphysibus filiformibus copiosis mixti; masculi ignoti.

Capsula oblonga, erecto-incurva, annulata; pedicello subunciali lævi; peristomii dentibus lanceolato-subulatis dense articulatis, ciliis carina pertusis, ciliolis ternis; operculo conico brevius rostrato.

Hypnum Boscii, Schwægr. Suppl. 1, 2, p. 223; Brid. Bryol. Univ. 2, p. 430; Müll. Synop. 2, p. 395; Sulliv. Mosses U. States, p. 70; Sulliv. & Lesqx. Musc. Bor.-Amer. Exsicc. (ed. 1), No. 294.

Hypnum illecebrum, Hedw. Sp. Musc. t. 66, f. 1, 2, p. 252.

Hypnum cupressifomie rotundius, vel Illicebræ æmulum, Dill. Hist. Musc. p. 311, t. 49, f. 46.

Hab. On the ground, in hilly and wooded districts: not uncommon, but rarely in fruit.

Hypnum Boscii in general appearance, and in shape, texture, areolation, and position of the leaves, very much resembles those