ICONES MU8CORUM. 89 



FUNARIA SERRATA, Beam. 

 Tab. 54. 



Plants aim use vel biennes, gregarise, vel csespitulos laxos tris- 

 tius virides efformantes. 



Caulis 2 - 4-linearis. dimidio inferiore radiculoso defoliatus, 

 superne conferte foliosus. 



Folia majuscula in gemmam apertam congesta ; exteriora ellip- 

 tico-lanceolata ; comalia et perichsetialia oblongo- vel ligulato- 

 lanceolata; omnia brevius acuminata, limbo luteo superne serrato 

 circumducta ; costa sub apice desinente ; reti laxo e cellulis hex- 

 agono-oblongis, basilaribus amplioribus elongatis, exstructo. 



Flores monoici, utriusque sexus terminales : flos masculus 

 specie in ramo radicali. 



Capsula in pedicello longo sicco tota longitudine sinistrorsum 

 torto pyriformis, erecto-incurva, orificio obliquo ; annulo nullo ; 

 sporis majusculis ; operculo deplanato-convexo apiculato ; calyp- 

 tra generis. 



Funakia serrata, Beauv. in Brid. Bryol. Univ. 2, p. 5 7 ; Hook. & Wils. 

 in Drumm. Muse. Amer. Coll. 2, No. 76 ; Sulliv. Muse. Alleghan. No. 12G ; 

 C. Mull. Synop. Muse. 2, p. 542; nee Bryol. Europ. t. 324. 



Hab. Moist and clayey soil, in exposed situations, in the 

 Southern States. 



F. serrata, Beauv., is nearly allied to the three species here 

 briefly characterized, viz. : — 



1. F. convexa, Spruce ; foliis obovatis vel oblongo-obovatis in 

 acumen tenue breviusculum subito attenuatis superne serratis ; 

 operculo depresso-convexo mutico ; pedicello sicco superne sinis- 

 trorsum inferne dextrorsum torto. — F. convexa, Spruce, Muse. 

 Pyren. ; Schimp. Synop. Muse. Europ. p. 322. F. serrata, Bryol. 

 Europ. t. 324. — Found only in Europe, and until recently con- 

 founded with F. serrata, Beauv., an exclusively North American 

 species. 



