388 MUSCI. Entosthodon. 



operculura, and no annulus. Peristome single (or none), of 16 short linear-lanceolate 

 punctulate teeth, inserted within the orifice and horizontal. 



Thirty or more species are described, one-half of them South American. The following are the 

 only North American species,. with a single exception. 



1. E- Templetoni, Schwaegr. Stems 3 to 6 lines high : lower leaves very small, 

 remote, the upper (6 or 8) rosulate, broadly obovate- to spatulate-oblong, acuminate, 

 the margin subcrenate from the prominent cells, costa ceasing below the apex, the 

 areolation rather large : capsule erect on a pedicel nearly ^ inch long, yellowish 

 brown, narrowly pyriform, the long collum attenuate into the pedicel ; operculum 

 plano-convex : teeth lanceolate-subulate, with broader confluent base, remotely 

 articulated, reddish. Suppl. t. 113 ; Bruch & Schimp. Bryol. Eur. t. 302 ; Wilson, 

 Bryol. Brit. t. 14 ; Berkeley, Brit. Moss. t. 16, fig. 5. 



Swamp near Mendocino (Bolander) ; Europe. 



2. E. Bolanderi, Lesq. Eesembling the last ; stem scarcely 2 lines high, erect 

 from a decumbent base : leaves yellowish green, longer acuminate, more loosely 

 areolate, and the costa wanting or scarcely reaching the middle ; perigonial leaves 

 nerveless : capsule with a longer somewhat inflated collum ; operculum umbonate or 

 apiculate-convex : teeth pale, linear-lanceolate, equal, very minutely granulose, not 

 nodose, the articulations and medial line obscure. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. xiii. 10; 

 Sulliv. & Lesq. Muse. Am.-Bor. Exsicc. 2 ed. n. 236 ; Sulliv. Icon. Muse. Suppl. 



28, t. 17. 



On clayey ground near San Francisco, Bolander. 



31. FUNABIA, Schreber. 



Differing from the preceding in the obliquely pyriform capsule and in the charac- 

 ters of the peristome. Stem at first simple, bearing a discoid male flower, the 

 female flowers terminal on later branches ; rootlets at base of the stem and branches: 

 capsule more or less nodding upon a long erect or arcuate at length twisted pedicel, 

 obliquely pyriform with a small oblique mouth, rather ventricose ; operculum flat- 

 convex or convex-conic ; annulus none or large and double : peristome double, from 

 below the orifice, the outer of 16 oblique linear-lanceolate prominently jointed teeth 

 connivent at apex upon a small reticulated disk, reddish purple at base, paler above ; 

 the inner of as many yellowish lanceolate cilia opposite to the teeth. 



Abont 20 species, of which 8 are found in North America. 



* Capsule suberect upon a straight pedicel, without annulus. 



1. P. California a, Sulliv. & Lesq. Loosely cespitose, pale green, the stems 

 1 or 2 lines high : upper leaves erect and crowded, oblong, shortly acute, concave, 

 entire, the costa continuous nearly to the apex, marginal areolation subquadrate 

 toward the apex, longer below : pedicel scarcely an inch long, twisted to the left 

 when dry ; capsule oblong-pyriform, only slightly unsymraetrical, with a depressed- 

 conic operculum : teeth and cilia adherent to above the middle. Muse. Am.-Bor. 

 Exsicc. 2 ed. n. 238 ; Lesq. in Mem. Calif. Acad. i. 20 ; Sulliv. Icon. Muse. Suppl. 



29, t. 18. 



On moist clayey soil, at Auburn, Ukiah, etc. (Bolander) ; Oregon, Hall. 



2. F. calcarea, Wahl. Loosely cespitose, stems 1 to 3 lines high : leaves 

 below oblong-lanceolate and deflexed, the upper more or less spreading, obovate- 

 oblong, more or less abruptly-acuminate, finely apiculate or terminating in a long 

 flexuose point, obtusely serrate or nearly entire, the yellow costa ceasing near the 

 apex : pedicel (6 to 8 lines long) twisted to the right when dry or the lower part to 



