30 ICONES MUSCORUM. 



FUNARIA AMERICANA, Lindh. 



Tab. 19. 



Plants gregariae vel laxe caespitantes, pnsillse. 



Caulis e basi radiculosus, innovante dichotomus, erectus, 2-3 

 lineas altus. 



Folia erecto-subaperta, oblongo-ovata, sensim iu acumen lon- 

 giusculum producta, nervo valido continuo instructa, margine 

 subintegra, areolatione laxa. 



Capsula oblongo-pyriformis, in pediccllo brevi 3-8 lineas 

 longo subflexuoso, sicco inferne sinistrorsum superne dextrorsum 

 torto, subcernua, erecta, collo inflate rugulosa ; operculo longe 

 conico obtuso. 



FuxARiA Americaxa, Lindb. Eevis. Funar. (1863). 



FuNARiA MuiiLENBERGii, Hedw. fil. MSS. in Turn. Flor. Hiber. (1804), 



nomen solum. 

 FuNARiA MuHLEXBERGii, Schwaegr. Suppl. 1 & 2, p. 78, t. 66 (1816), 



exclus. descriptione. 



Hab. Pennsylvania, Mulilenherg, James. 



This is an interesting recent rediscovery of a long-lost species. 

 It does not appear that it has been fonnd before James by any 

 one except Muhlenberg, who sent it from Pennsylvania to Hed- 

 wig. The first mention of it is in Turner's Muse. Hiber., 1804, 

 under the name simply of Funaria 31uhlenbergii, Hedw. fil. MSS., 

 without any diagnosis. Subsequently another species was found 

 in Europe, near the coast of the Mediterranean, which was until 

 recently considered by all bryologists the same as the Pennsyl- 

 vanian species. On these two species combined was founded 

 F. Mahlenhergii of Schwasgrichen, as quoted above ; the figure 

 representing mainly the Pennsylvanian and the description the 

 Mediterranean species. Schimper first (Synop. Muse. 1860) 

 separated the two species, referring the European moss to F. cat- 



