Funaria.] BEYACE^. 201 



* Peristome perfect : annulus none. 



1. F, Americana, Lindb. Plants small, gregarious or 

 loosely cespitose ; steius very short : leaves half open, oblong- 

 ovate, acuminate, loosely areolate^ borders nearly entire ; costa 

 excurrent : capsule erect, subcernuous, rugulose at the long 

 inflated collum ; pedicel short, twisted to the left in its lower 

 part, to the right in the upper when dry ; lid conical, obtuse. — 

 Ofvers. Akad. xx. 398, and xxi. 597 ; Sulliv. Icon. Muse. Suppl. 

 30, t. 19. F. Muhlenbergii, Hedw. fil. in Turn. Muse. Hibern. 

 106 (name only) ; Schwaegr. Suppl. i. 2. 78, t. 66, mainly, excl. 

 descr. ; Sulliv. Mosses of TJ. States, 51. 



Hab. Pennsylvania (Muhlenbercj , James). 



2. P. Mediterranea, Lindb. 1. c. Plants ^ to 1 cm. long, 

 loosely cespitose : lower leaves distant, oblong-lanceolate, de- 

 flexed, the upper open, erect or spreading, ovate-oblong, 

 abruptly narrowed to a long filiform flexuous acumen, ob- 

 scurely serrate or nearly entire above ; costa vanishing below 

 the apex : capsule clavate-pyriform ; lid convex-conical ; pedicel 

 twisted both ways as in the preceding species. — F. Muhlen- 

 bergii, Turn, in Koen. & Sims, Ann. Bot. ii. 198 ; Bryol. Eur. 

 t. 303. F. calcarea, Schimp. Syn. 320, excl. syn. ; Watson, 

 Bot. Calif, ii. 388, in part. 



Hab. California (Bigelow, Bolander). 



3. F. calcarea, Wahl. Plants slightly larger than in the 

 former species : leaves oblong-lanceolate, gradually narrowed to 

 a straiglit acumen, sharply serrate : capsule obovate, turgid, 

 with a long less inflated collum ; pedicel longer, twisted to the 

 left its whole length. — Vet. Akad. Handl. xxvii. 137, t. 4, f. 2. 

 F. Hibertiica, Hook, in Curt. Fl. Lond. ii, t. ; Bryol. Eur. 

 t. 304. 



Hab. British America (Drummond); Utah {Watson). 



4. F. serrata, Brid. Plants short, dirty green, loosely 

 cespitose : leaves tufted, oblong-lanceolate or lingulate-lanceo- 

 late, short-pointed, serrate above; costa vanishing below the 

 apex: capsule pyriform on a long pedicel twisted to the left 

 when dry; lid convex, apiculate. — Muse. Recent. Suppl. iii. 

 70 ; Sulliv. Icon. Muse. 89, t. 54. 



Hab. Moist clay banks and sand rocks, Southern States. 



5. F. Californica, Sulliv. & Lesq. Plants very small, pale 

 green, loosely cespitose: stem-leaves few, small and distant; 



