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In fields, gardens, on molehills, etc., especially where the 

 soil is clayey. Bearing fruit in April. 



Monoicous ; densely gregarious or somewhat tufted ; leaves 

 not margined; leaf- cells large; veil inflated below, split on 

 one side only ; lid plano-convex. 



There are occasionally rudiments of a peristome. 



3. E. Templetoni, Schw&g. ; upper leaves rosulate or 

 loosely imbricated, obovato-oblong, acuminate ; margin slightly 

 thickened, scarcely toothed; sporangium pyriform; sulcate 

 when dry ; teeth of peristome simple. Hook. Wils. t. xiv. ; 

 Eng. Bot. t. 2433, 2524. ; (Plate 16, fig. 5.) 



On dry ditch-banks, and in crevices of rocks. Ireland, 

 Scotland, Wales, and north of England. Bearing fruit in 

 spring. 



Monoicous; more or less gregarious. Stem short; lower 

 leaves distant, upper crowded ; leaves decurrent ; nerve reach- 

 ing nearly to the tip ; cells of disk large, subhexagonal or ob- 

 long; those of the margin much elongated and narrow; edge 

 unequal above, but scarcely toothed; fruitstalk short, about 

 i an inch long; sporangium subclavate or pyriform, with a 

 long tapering neck ; lid mammillary ; teeth reddish, fugacious, 

 nearly horizontal when dry, simple, without any medial line. 



47. FUNARIA, Schreb. 



Sporangium obliquely pyriform, thick, subventricose ; apo- 

 physis tapering into the fruitstalk, even, or furrowed when 

 dry; ring, when present, large; peristome double, outer of 

 sixteen oblique teeth, connected at their tips by a small reti- 

 culated circular disk ; inner a membrane divided into sixteen 

 lanceolate processes, opposite to the outer teeth, and sub- 

 adherent at the base ; veil swollen at the base, subulate above, 

 at length split on one side. 



