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the mouth is small and surrounded by 3-4 rows of darker, denser 

 cells/ In E. apictdatiis Sch., no. 1646 of Mandon, the lid of the 

 capsule is beaked, not flattened as in our specimens, and the leaves 

 are not subulate pointed. 



Funaria Jiygronietrica (L.) Sibth. Near Yungas, 4000 ft, 1885 

 (3132a). 



Growing mixed with Brytim argenteiun var, lanatiim. 



Funaria calvescens Schwaegr. Near Yungas, 4000-6000 ft., 

 1885 (3133a); Unduavi, 8000 ft., Oct., 1885 (3133b). 

 Funaria incurvifolia C. Miiller, n. sp. Near La Paz, loooo ft., 



Oct., 1885 (3132). 



Plants 1-2 cm., pale straw-yellow; stems often several together, 

 2-5 mm. high; leaves rosulate, 2-2.5 nim. long, incurved, carinate- 

 cucullate; vein yellow, ending in the acuminate, incurved apex; 

 margins with a narrow border of i row of elongated cells, entire 

 or faintly subserrulate ; cells of the basal angles large, swollen. 

 Dioecious; seta 5-10 mm. long, pale yellow and twisted; capsule 

 small, 1.5-2 mm., oblique-pyriform ; annulus large, compound, 

 falling with the blunt lid; teetlj with projecting cross-bars; inner 

 peristome present, of short slender segments. 



Belonging to the section of F. hygrometiica with which it was 

 compared ; differs in being smaller with incurved, more hyaline 

 leaves, the cells with thinner walls. 



Both F. liygrovietncoidcs Sch. (Mandon, no. 1648) and F. 

 Mandoni Sch. (Mandon, no. 1647) have shorter, blunt leaves, 

 with cells more lax and thicker walled, and the vein ending 

 below the apex with the marginal cells more swollen. 



Philonotis asperrima cm., n. sp. Sorata, loooo ft. (3140). 



Plants small; stems matted with brown tomentum, branches 

 short, less than 5 mm. long, numerous ; leaves of two kinds, those 

 of the main stems with a long subulate tip, a dark excurrent vein 

 and serrate, revolute margins, with clear, rectangular cells ; branch 

 leaves smaller, the upper part of the leaf very spinose, the vein 

 ending in the shorter, acuminate apex, margins plane or slightly 

 recurved, sharply serrate ; lower cells quadrate, smoother and 

 clearer than in the upper ones. Dioecious. Perichetical leaves, 

 broad, hyaline, and clasping at base, with a long subulate apex. 

 Pedicels short, i cm. ; capsules globose, 1.5-2 mm., oblique, strongly 

 ribbed ; lid mamillate, appressed ; peristome double, endostome 

 shorter than the teeth, mouth bordered by 4-6 rows of darker 

 denser cells. 



Growing mixed with Brywn argentemn var. lanatuni and a 



