FUNARIACE^;.] 129 [Physcomitrium. 



below the wide mouth, annulus simple, fragmentary ; lid nearly flat, 

 shortly and obtusely rostellate. 



HAB. Dried mud at Mere Mere, Cheshire (Wilson, 1834) ! ! Fr. 9 10. 



This rare little moss resembles some of the Phasca in the unpleasant 

 habit of disappearing for years, and then suddenly reappearing, as it did in 

 1868, when Mr. Hunt collected splendid specimens. A closely allied species 

 Physc. eurystomum (N.-EsEN.) SENDTN. has been found growing with this in 

 Germany, Holland, and France, and differs in the apiculate obtusely serrate 

 leaves, with larger polygonal upper cells and a taller and larger capsule. 



2. PHYSCOMITRIUM PYRIFORME (L.) Brid. 



Autoicous ; leaves distant erecto-patent, obovato-lanceolate, coarsely 

 serrate above, nerve vanishing below apex. Caps, on a long seta, shortly 

 pyriform, lid convex-conic, shortly rostellate. (T. LXIV, F.) 



SYN. Musctis trichodes humilior, capitulis piriformibus ereclis Doody. RAY Synops. 

 app. 243 (1690). 



Muscus capillar is parvus, capitulis magnis piriformibus erectis in pcdiculis brcvibus RAY 

 Synops. 2 ed. 29, n. 7 (1696). 



Bryum parvum, erectis piriformibus majusculis capitulis, foliolis serpylli pellucidis DILL. 



Cat. Giss. 223 (1719), et in RAY Syn. 3 ed. 93, n. 7 (1724). 

 Bryum serpillifolium pellucidum, capsulis pyriformibus DILL. Hist. muse. 345, t. 44, f. 6, 



A L (1741), et Herb. 

 Bryum pyriforme L. Sp. pi. 1116 (1753). HUDS. Fl. angl. 404 (1762). WEISS Cr. Goett. 



187 (1770). NECK. Meth. muse. 197 (1771). WITH. Bot. arr. ii, 672 (1776). LIGHTF. 



Fl. scot, ii, 718 (1777). RELH. Fl. cant. Suppl. 18 (1786). ABBOT Fl. Bedf. 241 (1798). 



HULL Br. fl. P. 2, 257 (1799). 

 Phascum pyriforme SWARTZ Meth. muse. 25 (1781). 

 Gymnostomum pyriforme HEDW. Fund. II, 87 (1782), Sp. muse. 38 (1801). ROTH Tent. 



fl. germ, i, 453 (1788). SIBTH. Fl. oxon. 274 (1794). HOFFM. Deutsch. fl. ii, 27 (1795)- 



BRID. Muse. rec. ii, P. I, 36 (1798), Sp. muse. I, 27 (1806), Mant. 14. 1819. SWARTZ 



Muse. suec. 20 (1798). ROEHL. Moosg. deutsch. 73 (1800), Deutsch. fl. iii, 39 (1813). 



SM. Fl. brit. 1160(1804). TURN. Muse. hib. n (1804). P. BEAUV. Prodr. 59 (1805). 



STURM Deutsch. fl. II, 8 (1805). SCHULTZ Fl. starg. 279 (1806). WEB. MOHR Bot. 



Tasch. 8 (1807). SCHKUHR Deutsch. cr. gew. P. II, 30, t. 12 (1810). SCHWAEG. Supp. 



I, P. I, 24(1811). VOIT muse. herb. 16 (1812). MART. Fl. cr. erl. 120 (1817). HOOK. 



TAYL. Muse. br. 13, t. 7 (1818). HARTM. Skand. fl. 382 (1820). WAHLENB. Fl. upsal. 



389 (1820). HOOK. Fl. scot. P. 2, 123 (1821), Br. fl. ii, 9 (1833). FUNCK. Moost. 6, t. 4 



(1821^ GRAY Nat. arr. br. pi. i, 716 (1821). NEES HSCH. Bry. germ, i, 144, t. 10, f. n 



(1823). HUEBEN. Muse. germ. 45 (1833). 

 Pottia pyriformis EHRH. Beitr. i, 188 (1787). 

 Gymnostomum longifolium SCHLEICH. Cat. pi. Helv. 4 ed. 40 (1821). STEUD. Nomencl. 



192 (1824). 



Gym. Physcomitrium pyriforme BRID. Bry. univ. i, 98 (1826). 

 Physcomitrium pyriforme BRID. Bry. univ. ii, 815 (1827). FUERNR. in Flora xii, P. II, 



Erganz. 9 (1829). HAMPE in Flora xx, P. I, 285 (1837). DE NOT. Syllab. 282 (1838), 



Epilogo456 (1869). BR. Sen. Bry. eur. Fasc. n (1841). C. MUELL. Synops. i, 116 



(1848). RABENH. Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 87 (1848). WILS. Bry. br. 275, t. 7 (1855). 



SCHIMP. Synops. 315 (1860), 2 ed. 376. BERK. Handb. br. m. 174 (1863). MILDE 



Bry. siles. 239 (1869). LINDB. in Not. ur Saells. Fn. et Fl. fenn. xi, 49 (1870). HOBK. 



Synops. 128 (1873). HUSN. Mouss. nord-ouest 115 (1873), Muse. gall. 213, t. 58 (1888). 



JURATZ. Laubm. oesten.ung. 194 (1882). LESQ. JAMES Moss. N. Amer. 197 (1884). 



