104 THE .TOUIliVAL OF BOTANY 



furtlier down until the cells have become decidedly eloncrate ; and in 

 this case the transition appears much more gradual and less clearly 

 defined (the character recalls the different modes of transition of the 

 intralaminal to the basal cells in Leucoloma). 



vSubfam. Pottie?e. 

 Beddomiella funarioides Dixon, gen. et sp. nov. 

 Stirps minuta ; caules ut videtur gregarie ad terrain seu ad rupes 

 orescentes, teneri, 3-4 mm. alti, frondes subcoraplanatas, flabellatas 

 perpallidas formantes. Folia inferiora parva, late ovato-lanceolata, 

 suj)erne sensim majora, subcomplanata, 1*5-2 mm. longa, tenera, 

 Haccida, ovato-oblonga vel obovato-lanceolata vel oblongo-lanceolata, 

 breviter acute acuminata, marginibus planis, superne sinuosis vel 

 grossiuscule obtuse denticulatis. Costa debilis, infra apicem vel 

 cum apice desinens. Areolatio perlaxa, perpellucida, e cellulis basi- 

 laribus elongate rectangularibus, ad 100 (x longis, 30-40 //- latis, 

 su|)erioribus irregulariter hexagono-rhomboideis, circa 40-50 ^u longis, 

 20-30 /A latis ; omnibus laevissimis, parietibus tenuibus ; marginalibus 

 vix angustatis. 



Dioica videtur. Flos 6 baud visus. Fl. $ terminalis, vaginula 

 cylindrica, seta tenuissima, flavida, 1-1*25 cm. alta ; theca minuta, 

 circa 1 mm, longa, valde asymmetrica, e collo detluente subpirifor- 

 mis, gibbosa, ore valde obliqua ; pallida, leptodermica, e cellulis 

 laxis, irregularibus, supra sa3pe isodiametricis, infra elongatis, parie- 

 tibus baud valde tenuibus, sed teneris ; ad orificium 1-2 seriebus 

 multo minoribus, transverse rectangularibus, fuscis. Calyptra junior 

 anguste cylindrica, cellulis spiraliter valde tortis. Operculum (theca? 

 immaturie) brevirostre. Annulus ? Peristomium sim2:)lex, e den- 

 tibus 16, inferne in membranam basilarem aurantiacam, subpellu- 

 cidam laevem, 30-35 /x, altam cohcerentibus, superne in crura bina 

 iiiiformia, opaca, leniter torquata, circa 3 mm. longa, densissime 

 papillosa, papillis prrBaltis, superne spiraliter incrassata. Spori 10-13 />t, 

 Iffives. 



Hab. Nilghiri Mts., India, Beddome, No. 650. Herb. Mitten, 

 in herb. N.Y. Bot. Garden. 



This very remarkable little moss was sent with a number of 

 unnamed scraps from Mitten's herbarium for determination. The 

 envelope contained principally a tuft of a Weisia ( W"^. viridula or 

 near it), with immature fruit, and the few stems of the Beddomiella 

 were mixed with that, but were quite loose, evidently forming 

 originally no part of the tuft, and may indeed not have been asso- 

 ciated with it at the time of growth. The substratum attached to 

 the base of the stems is hard and gritty, and indicates that they were 

 growing on sandy soil or more probably on rock. Only about half-a- 

 dozen stems in all were to be found. 



The plant curiously combines characters of Funariacece and Pof- 

 fiacea3 ; the areolation and the general character of the leaves is quite 

 Funarioid (c/! the drawing of the areolation, tab. 564. fig. 2 c, with 

 that of the Funarioid species, tig. 3 c), and the curved and asym- 

 metrical form of the capsule is quite in keeping, and most unlike the 



