650 musci. (mosses.) 



7. 15. radic&lis, Beauv. Monoecious; stems short; leaves linear-lanceo- 

 late, erect, cuspidate by the long-excurrent scabrous costa ; male flower gemmi- 

 form, close to the female. — Wet clay-banks, Ohio and southward. 



52. CONOSTOniURI, Swartz. (Tab. 11.) 



Calyptra cuculliform. Operculum conic-rostellatc. Capsule globular, cer- 

 nuous, exannulate, with a long civet pedicel. Peristome single : teeth 16, linear- 

 lanceolate, prominently articulated, with a medial line, united at their apices. 

 Inflorescence dioecious: male flower subdiscoicl, with clavate paraphyses. — A 

 genus scarcely distinguishable from Bartramia, differing only in the structure of 

 the peristome, the rostellate operculum, and the larger and less fugacious calyp- 

 tra. (Name from kwvos, a cone, and o-rofxa, a mouth, in allusion to the cone-like 

 appearance of the peristome.) 



1. C liCS'eaSe, Swartz. Stems compactly caespitose, V --' high, glau- 

 cous-green above, brownish below ; leaves erect, imbricated in 5 rows, lanceo- 

 late-acuminate, serrate, sharply carinate, mucronate by the excurrent costa. — 

 On rocks, in bleak alpine situations, White Mountains of New Hampshire. 

 (Tab. 17.) (Eu.) 



Tribe XXII. FUXARIEiE. 



53. FUNAMIA, Schreb. (Tab. 17.) 



Calyptra cuculliform, inflated below, subulate above. Operculum conic or 

 convex-obtuse. Capsule obliquely pyriform, rather ventricose, cernuous, with a 

 small oblique mouth, long-pedicellate. Peristome double : the exterior of 16 

 teeth, oblique, lanceolate-attenuated, and connected at their apices by a small 

 reticulated disk; the interior a membrane divided to the base into 10 lanceolate 

 cilia, opposite the teeth. Inflorescence monoecious : male flower snbdiscoid, 

 its paraphyses much enlarged at their apex. — Annual or biennial gregarious 

 plants, growing on the ground; stems at first simple, terminated by a male 

 flower, afterwards branched, the branches producing fertile flowers ; lower leaves 

 remote ; upper ones clustered, larger, broad-lanceolate, of a thin and loose tex- 

 ture ; the areolaa large, hexagonal-oblong ; costa loosely cellular, ceasing below 

 the apex. (Name from funis, a rope, from the twisted pedicel.) 



1. F. hygroiMt'trica, Hedw. Stems 3"- 10" high; upper and peri- 

 chajtial leaves connivent, crowded into a bud-like cluster, broadly ovate-lanceo- 

 late, very concave, entire, costate nearly to the apex; the perigonial leaves 

 serrate ; capsule furrowed when dry, the border of its mouth corrugated ; annu- 

 Ius large, spirally unrolling ; pedicel (2' -3' long) arcuate and flexuous — Var. 

 CALvescens has the pedicel more elongated and straight, the capsule more 

 slender, and almost erect. — Very common, on the ground (particularly when 

 lately burnt over), and on walls; the variety occurs mostly in the Southern 

 States. (Tab. 17.) (Eu.) 



2. F. fMvicas»S, Michx. In general appearance very much like the last; 

 but the color paler; leaves not so connivent and with a long cuspidate point, the 



