Funaria.] MU.sci-ACROCARPi-PEiiisTOMr. 51 



inch in length. The var. /S. has the stems branched with innovations, 

 each bearing a very short seta, which gives the plant a remarkable 

 appearance. 



10, P. ndnum, Hedw. (dwarf round-headed Hair-Moss); 

 stems short, leaves linear-lanceolate obtuse their margins and 

 the summit of the keel serrated principally at the extremity, 

 capsule nearly erect subglobose. Hedw. St. Or. v. l.t. 13. Turn. 

 Muse. Hib.p.89. Fl. Brit. p. 1379. E. Hot. t. 1625. Schwaegr. 

 Suppl. v. \. p. 324. Hobs. Br. Mosses, v. 1. n. 20. Drum. 

 Muse. Scot. v. 2. n. 20. Muse. Brit. ed. 2. p. 50. t. 11 — P. sub- 

 rotundum, Menz.—Fl. Brit. p. 1378. E. Bot. t. 1624.— P. pn- 

 milum, Sw. Muse. Suec. t. 9. f. 19. Hedw. Sp. Mu$c. t. 21. — 

 Dill. Muse. t. 55. /. 6. 



Moist sandy banks, frequently with P. abides. Fr. Dec. — It will be 

 seen that this differs in no particular from the preceding but in its 

 rounded capsule. 



(See Entosthodon and some Orthotricha in Diploperistomi.) 



Div. II. Peristome double. Diploperistomi. 1 



A. Internal peristome composed of distinct teeth or cilia, (in En- 

 tosthodon obsolete.) 



23. Entosthodon. Schivaegr. Entosthodon. 



Seta terminal. Peristome double ? the Older of 16 remote 

 teeth, arising from within the mouth of the capsule, horizontal 

 and slightly oblique; the inner obsolete or wanting. Capsule pyri- 

 form, with an apophysis. Calyptra dimidiate, inflated below. — 

 Named from ivrorSov, tvithin, and o^uv, a tooth, on account of the 

 insertion of the peristome. 



1. E. Templetdni, Schwaegr. ( Mr. Templeton't Entosthodon), 

 Schwaegr. Suppl. 2. p. 44. £. 113. — Funaria Templetoni, F. Bot. 

 t. 2524. — Weissia Templetoni, Muse. I hit. ed. 1. p. 42. <<l. 2. 



p. 77. t. 14. J look, in 1-1. Loud, cum le. Unix. Br.Mot&S, r. 2. 

 n. 27. 



Moi8t banks in a tenacious soil, in many parte of Ireland, the West 

 of Scotlaod and Wales, Wilson. Near Kilinun, Argyleshire, Mr. G. 

 Lyon. Fr. July. — At the suggestion of my intelligent and accurate 

 friend Mr. Wilson, who has seen, though very imperfectly, traces of a 



double peristome in sonic Welsh specimens, I place this plant in the 

 '• DiplaperUtomiJ* and near to Funaria t with which it has a \er\ great 

 affinity, especially with the /•'. Fontainetn. The leaves an- ovato-lan- 

 ceolate, acute, entire; captule narrow, pyriform (including the apophysis,) 

 the Hd nearly plane. I hare never seen more than a single peristome, 



and that has appeared to me to arise from the membrane lining the 



capsule, whose mouth is m>t oblique as in Funaria, 



24. Fun Aria. Schreb. Cord-moss. 

 Seta terminal. Peristome doable, oblique: the outer of hi 

 compact tn ill • the ituii r of as many cilia opposite to the teeth of 

 the outer. Gapndt pyriform, it- mouth oblique. Cafyptra 



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