MAMUPELLA. 379 



Marsupella Funckii {Web. cf Mu/ir) Diuii. 



J^iwjer mania excisa, Funck Samml. crypt, gew. n. 1 18 (nee. Dicks. (18U(!-;>H). 

 Jangermania Fanckii, Web. et Mohr. Deuts. krypt. p. 422 (1807.) 

 Sarcoscij2)hus Ficnckii, Nees Eur. Leberm. t. i., p. 130 (18;5;>). 

 Marsupella Funckii, Dum. Recueil Jung. p. 24 (1835). 



Dioicous, densely csespitose, stoloniferous, stolons leafless, 

 nidiculose ; small, lurid or dark brown colour. Stems erect or 

 procumbent, innovantly fasciculately ramose ; radiculose, rootlets 

 few, wanting- on the ascending branches. Leaves imbricate, on 

 young plants or innovations distant, patent to erecto-patent, 

 concave, subrotund, obovate or oval, emarginate from J to J, sinus 

 and segments acute ; texture firm, cells rather minute to small, 4, 

 5 and 6-sided, walls thick, angles thickened. No stipules. Bracts 

 larger than the leaves, broadly ovate, emarginate from ^ to ^, sinus 

 acute, segments acute or obtusate. Perianth smaller than the 

 innermost bracts to which it is adnate for about half its length, 

 free margin 4, 5 dentate ; pistillidia 5-7. Capsule small, brown ; 

 spores pale brown ; elaters a little darker, bispiral. 



Androecia terminal on chief stem or branches, 4, 5 pairs of 

 bracts, closely imbricate, tumid ; antheridia solitary, oval, stipitate. 



Fruits April, May. 



Dimensions. — Stems |- to f inch long, diam. "1 mm., with 

 leaves '7b mm. wide; leaves '6 mm. x '5 mm., segments '2 mm., 

 •5 mm. X *5 mm., seg. '2 mm., "6 mm. x "6 mm., seg. "2 mm. 

 •5 mm. X "4 mm., seg. '15 mm.; cells "015 mm. x "015 mm. 

 .0225mm. x -0175 mm., '02 mm. x '02 mm.; sub-bract '8 mm. 

 X -8 mm., seg. '2 mm. ; bracts -9 mm. x "8 mm., seg. "25 mm.; 

 perianth '7b mm. high; perigonial bracts "5 mm. x '5 mm., seg. 

 "2 mm. ; antheridia '15 mm. x •12 mm. ; spores "01 mm. ; elaters 

 •15 mm. X '015 mm. 



Hab. — Grrows usually on subalpine and alpine pathways, or 

 on rocks on which there is a layer of soil, rarely on the bare 

 rock. 



2. Tilgate Forest, G. E. Lavics. 7. Bettws-y-Coed, Dr. 

 Carrinyton. Cader Idris, W. 11. P. ; Tyn-y-Groes, G. A. Holt, 



