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1. FuNARiA AMERICANA Lindberg 

 (F. Muhlenbergii Hedwig, — mainly plate, not description, — Lindberg) 



Small, gregarious to loosely cespitose: stems very short; leaves erect- 

 spreading, ovate-oblong, long-acuminate, somewhat concave, plane-margined, 

 entire; costa strong, excurrent into a hair-point, leaf-cells lax, moderately thin- 

 walled, the basal quadrate-hexagonal to rectangular, the upper elongate rectan- 

 gular: seta slender, rather short, up to 1.5 cm long, when dry dextrorse below, 

 sinistrorse above; capsule erect, sub-cemuous, pyriform-oblong, the mouth 

 tilted to one side, when dry the long tapering neck rugulose, the urn smoothish 

 and constricted below mouth; no annulus; peristome-teeth lance-linear, dex- 

 trorsely tilted, castaneous-pellucid, papillose, articulate, with divisural, strongly 

 trabeculate; segments about as long and opposite teeth, pale pellucid and papil- 

 lose; lid conic, obtuse, calyptra inflated, long-rostrate, cucullate; spores 

 papillose, mature in May: autoicous. 



On bare ground, or among grass, eastern Pennsylvania to Ohio and Mirme- 

 sota, south to Georgia, and m California, but not often collected, — pverhaps to 

 he expected in our region. 



2. FuNARiA FLAVICANS Richardson, Michaux 



Loosely cespitose: stems erect, smaller than F. hygrometrica; lower leaves 

 small, the upper leaves larger and tufted, oblong-spatulate to obovate. concave, 

 plane-margined, entire, at apex long-acuminate; costa percurrent or excurrent; 

 leaf-cells large, lax; seca long, erect, capsule oval-pyriform to globose-pyriform, 

 more or less horizontal or downward curved, dark reddish when mature, with 

 mouth less oblique and smaller than in F. hygrometrica, gradually attenuate 

 below into the seta, not much furrowed when old; lid low-convex, not apicu- 

 late; spores about .025 mm in diameter, mature in May or June: autoicous. 



On bare moist earth, usuallv clay, in eastern United States from Connecti- 

 cut and New York south and west. 



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



3. Fun ARIA hygrometrica [L. — Sibthorp] He:'.wig 

 The Cord Moss 



Plate XXI 

 Loosely cespitose, rathsr light green: stems about 3-10 mm high, erect, 

 radiculose at base, simple or basally divided; leaves erect to appressed, con- 

 cave, 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 rectangular to hex- 

 agonal, 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 unsymm.etric, arched and turgid on upper side, 2-3 m.m long, strongly 

 incurved at mouth, deeply sulcate when dry, pvriform, yellowish to brown 



