Fam. 14. FUNARIACE^:. 



Plants terrestrial, soft, gregarious or laxly tufted. Leaves ovato- 

 lanceolate, with a thin nerve, cells large, lax hyaline smooth, hexagonal 

 or oblongo-rhomboid. Caps, spherical, oval or pyriform, with a distinct 

 neck, erect or cernuous, regular or gibbous, peristome none, single or 

 double, teeth 16, acuminate and twisted to the right, or small and 

 straight, calyptra inflated, with a long beak, cleft on one side or 

 many-lobed. 



This family, numbering about 135 species, is principally characterised 

 by its large lax parenchymatous cells, and pyriform capsules, inflated 

 calyptra and oblique cartilaginous teeth. The majority are found in the 

 temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, but many occur in S. America 

 and Australia. 



Subf. i. Disceliese. Plants nearly stemless, gemmiform, attached to 

 persistent protonema ; leaves sheathing nerveless, with lax hexagonal cells, 

 without chlorophyl. Caps, on a long seta, subglobose, inclined ; peristome 

 of 16 lanceolate teeth, cleft and gaping in the lower half. 



i. DISCELIUM. Brid. 



Bry. univ. i, 365 (1826). 



Calyptra very narrow, cleft on one side with the margins involute 

 at base. Caps, subglobose with a short neck, teeth 16. cartilaginous, 

 lanceolate, cleft in the middle, trabeculate. Der. S ts two, o-KeXos 

 a leg. 



DISCELIUM NUDUM (Dicks.) Brid. 



The only species. (T. LXIV, A.) 



SYN. Bry urn nudum DICKS. Crypt. Fasc. IV, 7, t. 10, f. 15 (1801). BRID. Muse. rec. II, P. Ill, 



61 (1803). P. BEAUV. Prodr. 48 (1805). 

 Grimmia nuda SM. Fl. brit. 1197 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 1421. TURN. Muse. hib. 25 (1804). 



BRID. Sp. muse. I, 101 (1806). 



Weissia incarnata SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. I, 66, t. 18 (1811). 

 Weissia rosea WAHLENB. Fl. lapp. 325, t. 19 (1812). 

 Weissia nuda HOOK. TAY. Muse. br. 43, t. 14 (1818). GRAY Nat. arr. br. pi. i, 729 (1821). 



HOOK. Fl. scot. P. II, 130 (1821), Br. fl. ii, 19 (1833). 



Coscinodon nudus BRID. Mant. 48 (1819). 



