FUNARIACE^E. 



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tufted or gregarious habit, growing on the 

 ground ; the stem loosely leaved, very sim- 

 ple. Inflorescence monoecious; antheridial 

 flowers disk-shaped, mostly terminal on a 

 special branch. Antheridia small, oval. 

 Archegones small, narrowly apiculate. Pa- 

 raphyses filiform at base, cluVshaped and 

 articulate at the apex. Peristorne, if pre- 

 sent, cartilaginous, red, streaked, with soli- 

 tary, oblique, trabeculate teeth. 



British Genera. 



Funaria. Capsule asymmetrically arched 

 (fig. 257); orifice oblique, very small; stalk 

 much curved, elongated, very hygroscopic 

 and twisting. Calyptra ventricose-dimi- 

 diate, rounded at the base, obtuse, shorter 

 than the capsule, or larger and truncate at 

 the base (fig. 258). Peristoine double, erect ; 

 outer of sixteen, oblique, broadly lanceolate- 

 subulate, trabeculate teeth, with appendices 

 near the point (fig. 259), chained together 

 at the apex by a reticular disk ; the inner 

 as many as the outer, opposite and adnate at 

 the base, lanceolate, granular, with a longi- 



Fig. 257. 



Fig. 258. 



F. hibernica. 



Fig. 257. A ripe capsule with its twisted seta. 



Fig. 258. An immature capsule, covered by its calyptra. 



Magnified 25 diameters. 



tudinal line. Cells of the operculum circi- 

 nately reticulate at the apex. 



Pyramidium. Calyptra squarely pyra- 

 midal, apiculate, entire at the base, far ex- 

 ceeding the capsule, totally covering it, in- 

 flated and persistent, bursting at the middle 

 of the side, longer. Capsule symmetrical, 



FUNARIACE.E. 



Fig. 259. 



Fig. 260. 



F. hibernica. 



Teeth of the peristome, with appendices. 

 Magnified 150 diameters. 



erect, pyriform, without a peristome. Oper- 

 culum regularly areolate. 



Physcomitrium. Calyptra mitre-shaped, 

 split at the base into several lacinise, entire 

 below, much shorter than the capsule, with 

 a long apiculus. Capsule symmetrical, 

 straight, pyriform, without a peristome. 

 Operculum regularly areolate. 



Entosthodon. Calyptra bladder-like, di- 

 midiate, with a long 

 apiculus, entire, round- 

 ed or truncate, readily 

 splitting. Capsule sym- 

 metrical, pear-shaped, 

 straight, or declined on 

 an arched stalk, with 

 or without a peristome. 

 Peristome, if present, 

 horizontal, erect when 

 dry, simple ; internal 

 wanting or scarcely 

 perceptible ; composed 

 of very short lacinise. 

 Teeth lanceolate, ivith- 

 out appendages, simple 



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or twin flat outside, Capaule . 25diams< 



trabeculate within, 



mostly oblique at the summit, connivent 



but not connate. Operculum regularly 



areolate. 



AmUyodon. Calyptra hood-like, narrow, 

 very fugacious, longish, very slender, com- 

 posed at the apex of very small, thickened, 

 square cells. Capsule asymmetrical, pear- 

 shaped, straight, with a peristome and an 

 annulus. Peristome double : external 

 teeth sixteen, short, lanceolate, obtuse, erect, 

 trabeculate with a slender longitudinal line ; 

 internal teeth equal in number, lanceolate, 

 subulate, fissile longitudinally in the middle, 



Physcomitrium 

 pyriforme. 



