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markable for its crowded mode of growth, yellow leaves and 

 fruitstalks; the latter becoming redder upwards, especially 

 as the plant advances to maturity. 



22. FUNARIA. 



GEN. CHAR. Fruitstalks terminal; Peristoihe double, 

 oblique; the outer of 16 teeth, the inner of 10 

 teeth opposite to those of the outer. (TAB. II.) 



The genus Funaria, although sufficiently characterized by the 

 interior teeth or cilia being oblique, and placed opposite to those 

 of the outer, is further remarkable in these teeth lying horizon- 

 tally over the mouth of the capsule ; and the mouth itself is not 

 situated at the apex of the capsule, but a little below i% as in 

 Bartramra. The capsule is obconical or pyriform, somewhat 

 gjbbotis above, striated when old. The calyptra is niitriform, 

 quadrangular in a young state, much swollen ;<t its base, so as to 

 be ampullaceous when old ; the point mucionated. In the male 

 flowers (of Hedvvig) the succulent filaments are remarkably cla- 

 vate, jointed, pellucid, the joints containing greenish granules. 



\. F. Injgrometrica ; leaves very concave, ovate, apiculate, en- 

 tire, nerve excurrent j fruitstalk curved, flexuose. (TAB. 

 XX.) 



Funaria hygrometrica. Hedw. Sp. Muse. p. 172. Turn. Muse. H'b. 

 p. 105. Engl. Bot. #.342. Mvug.'et Nest 1. ri. 132. Hook, in FL Load, 

 ed. 2. (with a figure.) Mnium Ir/gro metric urn. Linn. Koelreuteria. 

 Hsdw. Fund. Dill. Muse. t. 52. / 75. 



HAB. On old walls and buildings, and dry and barren 

 soils, in almost every situation. 



This species has most decidedly marked characters in the 

 apiculate, not acuminate, and entire leaves, and in the flex- 

 nose fruitstalk, which possesses a remarkably bygrpmetric 

 quality. 



2. F. Muhlenlergii stems short; leaves concave, ovate, sud- 

 denly acuminated, serrated, the nerve disappearing below 

 the point; fruitstalks straight. (TAB. XX.) 



F. Muhlenbergii. Turn, in Ann. of Bo*. v t 2.j). 193. Engl. Bat. 

 p. 1498. Schwaegr. Suppl. t. 66. 



