194 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW BRITISH MOSSES. 
his specimens is smaller and less erect and even-sided than in Ameri- 
can specimens. 
Funaria microstoma, B. and S., closely resembling F. hygrometrica, 
but smaller, comal leaves, oval-elliptic acuminate, their points connivent. 
Seta short, when wet bent over with a wide curve, when dry nearly 
straight ; capsule bent downwards, obovate pyriform, when mature yel- 
low, afterwards deep-brown, and when dry plicate ; operculum slightly 
' raised in the middle; outer peristome with teeth, red below, paler and 
trabeculate above, at their apices connected together into a small cel- 
lular expansion ; inner peristome very short and adherent to the bases 
of the teeth; annulus very wide and compound; calyptra with a long 
beak.—F. microstoma, Bryol. Europ. Funaria, p. 9, t. 4; Schimper 
Synopsis, p. 324; C. Müller, Synops. i. p. 106. 
In a small spot destitute of herbage by the roadside at Maresfield, 
Sussex, with ripe fruit, May, 1864. 
' This species very nearly resembles small states of F. hygrometrica, 
and may be easily passed over as a state of that ubiquitous Moss, but 
it may be readily distinguished by its capsule having a smaller mouth 
and the imperfect internal peristome; there is also a difference in the 
aspect of the mature capsule, which having its mouth a little more 
 eurved under opens in a more downward direction. 
F. microstoma was first published in the * Bryologia Europea,’ and 
in M. Schimper’s ‘Synopsis’ he gives four localities, the nearest of 
which to Britain is Normandy, besides which, it occurs in North-west 
India, and is probably overlooked elsewhere from its great similarity to 
F. hygrometrica. 
The figure in the Bryol. Europ. represents the mouth of the capsule 
much too small. 
Seligeria calcicola, mentioned in Berkeley's ‘Handbook of British . 
Mosses,' is a very inconspicuous species, found on chalk stones par- 
tially imbedded in the earth in banks and under the shade of bushes on 
the north side of the South Downs ; it occurs also on the Surrey Downs 
at Box Hill. It does not appear to prefer the same localities as S. cal- 
carea, for the two species have not been observed growing together, 
although they both inhabit the same range of Downs. 
From 8. calcarea, Dicks, S. calcicola differs in its leaves being 
gradually attenuated to the apex, and its capsule having an obovate 
form both before and after the fall of the operculum. In 8. calcarea 
