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beaked; calyptra glossy, yellow or brown, deeply lobed at base, rough at apex; 

 spores large and rough. 



On trees and decaying wood in coppice, New Providence : Florida and Louisiana. 



SCLLIVANT'S SCHLOTHEIMIA. 



Family 6. FUNARIACEAE C. Muell. 

 FUNARIA FAMILY. 



Plants usually annual, seldom biennial, sometimes ephemeral and 

 minute or rudimentary. Stems short, erect and seldom branched. Leaves 

 small and narrow, or large and broad; margins entire or toothed; vein pres- 

 ent or rarely absent. Pedicel short and immersed, or long and exserted; 

 capsule erect or inclined, symmetric or asymmetric, ovoid or pyriform; 

 annulus large and conspicuous, or undeveloped; calyptra cucullate, often 

 inflated and oblique, rarely lobed or papillose; peristome absent, rudi- 

 mentary or double, its teeth straight or oblique. A family of wide distri- 

 bution, including about 12 genera with some 244 species. 



1. FUNARIA Schreb.; L. Gen. Plant, ed. 8, 2: 760. 1791. 



Plants usually scattered, rarely crowded. Stems short, simple. Leaves 

 crowded at the summit, usually broadest above the base, entire or serrate; vein 

 ending below the apex, percurrent or excurrent. Pedicel exserted, elongated; 

 capsule erect or nodding, often pear-shaped ; lid flat or apiculate ; calyptra 

 much inflated at base, beaked ; peristome single, double or rarely lacking. 

 [Latin, in reference to the twisted pedicels.] A large genus of about 100 

 widely distributed species. Type species : Mnium hygrometricum L. 



Mouth of the capsule oblique: leaves serrate. 1. F.liijgrometrlca. 



Mouth of the capsule small ; leaves nearly entire. 2. F. flavicans. 



1. Funaria hygrometrica (L.) Sibth. Fl. Oxon. 288. 1794. 



Mnium hygrometricum L. Sp. PL 1110. 1753. 



Plants bright yellowish-green turning brown. Steins short, simple; leaves 

 few, erect, appressed around the base of the pedicel, broad and concave, acute 

 or acuminate ; the vein ending in the apex, the margins with swollen teeth ; 

 cells clear, smooth, oblong below, shorter and hexagonal above. Pedicel pale, 

 twisted, variable in length ; capsule horizontal or nodding, ribbed when dry, 

 its mouth oblique ; lid bordered with a red rim ; annulus large, double, falling 

 with the lid; peristome double, oblique, the teeth with apical appendages at- 

 tached to a central disc; calyptra large, inflated at base; spores rough, ripen- 

 ing early in spring. 



On charred earth, Eight Mile Rock, Great Bahama. A cosmopolitan species. 

 CORD-MOSS. 



2. Funaria flavicans Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 303. 1803. 



A smaller plant than the preceding, differing in the fewer leaves, which are 

 entire, the vein ending in a short subulate tip; [the pedicel shorter, the capsule 

 more symmetric, its mouth not oblique; spores a little larger]. 



Only known from sterile specimens collected in a coppice, Soldier's Road, New 

 Providence : Bermuda ; southern United States. PALE-GREEN FUNARIA. 



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