FUNARIACE^. 



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FUNARIACEiE. 



tufted or gregarious habit, growing on the 

 ground ; the stem loosely leaved, very sim- 

 ple. Inflorescence monoecious; antheridial 

 flowers disk-shaped, mostly terminal on a 

 special branch. Antheridia small, oval. 

 Archegones small, narrowly apiculate. Pa- 

 raphyses filiform at base, club-shaped and 

 articulate at the apex. Peristome, if pre- 

 sent, cartilaginous, red, streaked, with soli- 

 tary, oblique, trabeculate teeth. 



British Genera. 



Funaria. Capsule asymmeti'ically arched 

 (fig. 257); orifice oblique, very small; stalk 

 much curved, elongated, very hygroscopic 

 and twisting. Calyptra ventricose-dimi- 

 diate, rounded at the base, obtuse, shorter 

 than the capsule, or larger and truncate at 

 the base (fig. 258). Peristome double, erect ; 

 outer of sixteen, oblique, broadly lanceolate- 

 subulate, trabeculate teeth, with appendices 

 near the point (fig. 259), chained together 

 at the apex by a reticular disk ; the inner 

 as many as the outer, opposite and adnate at 

 the base, lanceolate, granular, with a longi- 



Fig. 257. 



Fig. 258. 



F. hibernica. 



Fig. 257. A ripe capsule with its twisted seta. 



Fig. 208. An immature capsule, covered by its calyptra. 



Magnified 25 diameters. 



tudinal line. Cells of the operculum circi- 

 nately reticulate at the apex. 



Pyramidium. Calyptra squarely pyra- 

 midal, apiculate, entire at the base, far ex- 

 ceeding the capsule, totally covering it, in- 

 flated and persistent, bursting at the middle 

 of the side, longer. Capsule symmetrical. 



F. hibernica. 



Teeth of the peristome, with appendices. 



Magnified 150 diameters. 



erect, pyi-iform, without a peristome. Oper- 

 culum regularhj areolate. 



Physcoinitrium. Cah'ptra mitre-shaped, 

 split at the base into several lacinia3, entire 

 below, much shorter than the capsule, with 

 a long apiculus. Capsule symmetrical, 

 straight, pyriform, without a peristome. 

 Operculum regularly areolate. 



Entosthodon, Calyptra bladder-like, di- 



midiate, with a long 



Ym. 260. 



apiculus, entire, roimd- 

 ed or truncate, readily 

 splitting. Capsule sym- 

 metrical, pear-shaped, 

 straight, or declined on 

 an arched stalk, with 

 or without a peristome. 

 Peristome, if present, 

 horizontal, erect when 

 dry, simple ; internal 

 wanting or scarcely 

 perceptible ; composed 

 of very short lacinias. 

 Teeth lanceolate, ivith- 

 out appendar/es, simple 



or twin, flat outside, „ ,^^ ..,. 



T ,' .... ' Capsule, maen. 2odjiams. 



trabeculate within, 



mostly oblique at the summit, connivent 

 but not connate. Operculum regularly 

 areolate. 



A7nhIyodon. Calyptra hood-like, narrow, 

 very fugacious, lougish, very slender, com- 

 posed at the apex of very small, thickened, 

 square cells. Capsule asymmetrical, pear- 

 shaped, straight, with a peristome and an 

 annulus. Peristome double : external — 

 teeth sixteen, short, lanceolate, obtuse, erect, 

 trabeculate with a slender longitudinal line ; 

 //(^<'r««/— teeth equal in number, lanceolate, 

 subulate, fissile longitudinally in the middle, 



Physcomitrium 

 pyriforme. 



