200 BRYACE^. [Entosthodon. 



hyaline ; costa short, scarcely passing above the middle : male 

 flowers in smaller buds at the base of the fertile ones : capsule 

 pyriform, gradually defluent to a long slightly inflated collum ; 

 lid highly convex, mamillate ; teeth pale, Avhitish, granulosa ; 

 articulations and dividing line very obscure. — Trans. Amer. 

 Phil. Soc. xiii. 10 ; Sulliv. & Lesq. Muse. Bor.-Am. (ed. 2), 

 n. 236; Sulliv. Icon. Muse. Suppl. 28, t. 17. 



Hab. On clayey soil near the bay of San Francisco (Bolander). 



A very distinct species, even deviating somewliat from tlie generic 

 cliaracters in its broad very soft entire leaves, costate only to the middle, 

 while in its inflorescence it resembles Funaria, and in its calyptra, which 

 i^ five-lobed at base and rather mitrate, it is like a Physcomitrium. 



3. E. Templetoni, Schwaegr. More or less densely gre- 

 garious : stem-leaves few, distant, the upper tufted, broadly 

 obovate or spatulate-oblong, acuminate ; border narrow ; cells 

 more or less unequal, yellow ; costa dividing below the acumen : 

 capsule defluent into a long collum, pyriform, obconical and 

 truncate, furrowed when empty; teeth lanceolate-subulate, 

 reddish, papillose, distantly articulate ; articulations prominent 

 on the sides: spores verruculose. — Suppl. ii. 1. 44, t. 113; 

 Bryol. Eur. t. 302. Weissia Templetoni^ Hook, in Curt. Fl. 

 Lond. i, t. Funaria attenuata, Lindb. Manip. Muse. i. 63. 



Hab. Swamp near Mendocino, California {Bolander). 



74. FUNARIA, Schreb. (PI. 3.) 

 Habit, mode of growth, form of leaves, reticulation and 

 calyptra as in the preceding genus. Capsule gibbous, obtusely 

 pyriform, narrowed to a more or less elongated curved collum ; 

 pedicel generally long, straight, or arcuate above; lid plano- 

 convex ; annulus none or compound and revoluble. Peristome 

 rudimentary or more generally double, the outer of 16 teeth, 

 very hygrometrical, obliquely curving to the right, prominently 

 trabeculate on the inner side with purple strias, pale and granu- 

 lose on the outside, connected at the apex by a small reticulated 

 disk; inner membrane divided into 16 cilia opposite to the 

 outer teeth and adhering at the base, lanceolate or more or less 

 rudimentary, yellowish, with a longitudinal medial line, distantly 

 papillose. Sporangium much smaller than the capsule, attached 

 to it by loosely entangled filaments. Spores generally large. 



