370 ]\Ir. R. Spruce on the Musci and Hepaticce of the Pyrenees. 



Tribus 16. FuNARiACEiE^ Bryol. Europ. (ex parte). 

 28. Amblyoclon, Pal. Beauv. 



195. A. dealbatus, Dicks. Crypt, fasc. 2. p. 8. t. 5. f. 3 (sub 

 Bryo) ', Br. Europ. Amhlyodon (cum ic). 



Hab. Zg in spongiosis. P. occ. in monte Lize, socio Meesia 

 trichode. P. or. Port Negre (Aruott !). 



29. Funaria, Schreber. 



196. F. hygrometrica, L. Sp. PI. p. 1575 (sub Mnio) ; Br. 

 Europ. Funaria, t. 3 ; M. P. 148. 



Hab. Zo_3 locis exustis, ruderatis et calcareis. 



197. F. convexu, Spruce in Musci Pyr. 149. F. serrata, B. et 

 S. Br. Europ. Funaria, p. 8. t. 2 (non Brid. Br. Univ. 2. p. 57). 



Hab. Zq p. occ. St. Sever, in aggeribus arenosis, socio F. Mueh- 

 lenbergii, a quo operculo convexo neutiquam convexo-conico primo 

 visu dignoscenda. 



I had come to the conclusion that this moss must be distinct from 

 the F. serrata of Bridel (whose specimens were Pennsylvanian ones 

 communicated by Pahsot-de-Beauvois) before I had the opportunity 

 of examining the si)ecimens so named by Hooker and Wilson in 

 Drummond's ' Mosses of the Southern States,' &c., No. 76, and those 

 of SuUivant in his beautiful ' Musci Alleghanyenses,' No. 126 ; and 

 it is satisfactory to find my opinion supported by the decisions of 

 these eminent botanists. The American specimens agree much better 

 with Bridel's description in the form of the leaves, &c. than do those 

 of Bruch and Schimper. I find the perichsetial leaves of the former 

 to be oblong-lanceolate, acute or subapiculate (never acuminate), 

 plane, serrated almost to the very base, the rather strong nerve reach- 

 ing nearly to the point, and it is sometimes only with a tolerably high 

 power that it can be ascertained to fail one or two cellules below it. 

 Bridel calls the leaves " acuminata " in his spec, char., but in his 

 description he uses the more applicable term " acutiuscula." Of the 

 nerve he says " proxime sub apicem abrupto nunc paulum excur- 

 rente :" I have never seen it excurrent, but it may well have ap- 

 peared so in some cases with the inferior instruments which Bridel 

 seems to have used. 



F. convexa has the leaves larger, proportionally much wider, spa- 

 thulato-acuminate (" forma peculiari, subspathulata," Br. Europ.), 

 concave, the marginal serratures rarely descending below the middle, 

 the feeble nerve only | the length of the leaf, and the areolation wider ; 

 the pedicel shorter, when dry twisted to the right ; the mouth of the 

 capsule more oblique and the teeth of the peristome with fewer arti- 

 culations. 



F. convexa is distinguished from F. Muehlenbergii by another ob- 

 vious character, besides the one above-mentioned, namely by the 

 calyptra hem^ pei'sistent on full-grown dried capsules, its heak point- 

 ing downwards and usually parallel to the pedicel ; whereas in the 



