136 A MANUAL Ol- MOSSES 



when old : lid low-convex, not apiculate ; spores about .025 mm. 

 in diameter, mature in May or June : autoicous. 



On bare moist earth, usually clay, Abyssinia and. in Xorth 

 America, from Xew York south and west. 



Lawrence : T. P.James. (Porter's Catalogue). 



3. Funaria hygrometrica | L. Sibthorp] Hedwig. 



(Plate XVII.) 



Loosely cespitose, rather light green : stems about 3-10 

 mm. high, erect, radiculose at base, simple or basally divided; 

 leaves erect to appressed, concave, forming a bulbiform tuft, 

 oblong-ovate, acute or shortly acuminate, entire or slightly 

 crenate, larger leaves 2-4 mm. long by three-fifths as wide, 

 strongly costate to the apex or percurrently costate ; cells rec- 

 tangular to hexagonal, narrower towards margin, above more 

 or less quadrate-hexagonal, the lower more or less inflated, 

 above becoming more or less incrassate: seta about 2-5 cm. 

 high, erect, sinistrorse, flexuous, lustrous, chestnut-brown, 

 paler above ; capsule unsymmetric, arched and turgid on upper 

 side, 2-3 mm. long, strongly incurved at mouth, deeply sulcate 

 when dry, pyriform, yellowish to brown when old, usually 

 more or less horizontal but the upper part of seta often vari- 

 ously bent and curved and strongly hygroscopic ; mouth about 

 0.6-0.8 mm. wide, annulus revoluble, deep castaneous ; opercu- 

 lum low-convex ; peristome-teeth castaneous-pellucid, papil- 

 lose, strongly trabeculate, spirally twisted, united at apex ; 

 segments about three-fourths as long, papillose ; spores smooth, 

 round, about .014-.017 mm.; mature in May or June; calyptra 

 cucullate, long-rostrate, early deciduous : autoicous. 



Widely distributed over the earth ; throughout North 

 America. Common in our region on earth, burnt-over spots, 

 etc. ( Quite variable in size and leaf-characters but we have 



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not been able to recognize any of the several described vane- 

 ties in our region.) 



Allegheny : Power's Run, April 22, and May 23, 1905. 



April 18, 1906. Schenley Park, Pitts- 

 burgh, August 16, 1905; Sandy Creek, 

 May 8, 1904; Carnot, May 20, 1907, and 

 October 11. 1908; Fern Hollow, August 

 20. 1906; Allegheny, May 26. 1909; Li- 

 brary P. O., April 29, 1906, all O. E. J.; 

 Bakerstown Station, August 22, 1907. O. 

 E. T. and G. K. T- 



Beaver 



Cambria : 

 Crawford 



Beaver Falls, May 14, 1907. O. E. J. 



St. Lawrence, |uly 24, 1908. O. E. [. 

 Linesville, May 10, 1906, and May 12 and 

 Ma 28, 1908.' O. E. 



