388 MUSCI. ICutosthoJon. 



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



punctulate teeth, inserted within the orilice and horizontal. 



Thirty or more speines are ilescribeil, one-half ol" them South American. Tlie following are the 

 only North Ameiitan species, with a single exception. 



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

 remote, the upper (G ur 8) rosulate, broadly obovate- to spatulate-oblong, acuminate, 

 the margin siibcrenate from the prominent culls, costa ceasing below the ape.x, the 

 nreolation rather large : capsule erect on a pedicel nearly h inch long, yellowish 

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

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

 articulated, reddish. — Suj)))!. t. 113; Bruch & Schimp. Bryol. Eur. t. 302 ; Wilson, 

 Bryol. Brit. t. U ; Berkeley, Brit. Moss. t. IG, tig. 5. 



Swamp near Mendocino {Bolandcr) ; Europe. 



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

 from a decumljcnt 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 inflateil collum ; operculum umbonate ov 

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

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

 Sulliv. &i Lesq. ]\Iusc. Am.-Bor. Exsicc. 2 ed. n. 23G ; SuUiv. Icon, Muse. Suppl. 



28, t. 17. 



On clayey ground near San Fiaucisco, Bolandcr. 



31. FUNARIA, Scluebcr. 



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

 ters of the peristome. Stem at lirst sinqde, bearing a discoid male llower, 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 ; o])erculum llat- 

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

 below the orifice, the outer of IG obliipie linear-lancuolate i)rominently jointed teeth 

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

 the inner of as many yellowish lanceolate cilia opi)osite to the teeth. 



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



* Capsule snberect upon a stmif/ht pedicel, without annulus. 



1. F. Californica, Sulliv. ik Lesq. Loosely cespitose, jiale green, the .'^tems 

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

 entire, the costa continuous nearly to the i\.\)gx, marginal areolation subijuadrate 

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

 when dry ; capsule oblong-pyriibrm, only slightly unsymmetrical, with a do))ressed- 

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

 Exsicc. 2 ed. n. 238 ; Lesip in !Mem, Calif. Acad. i. 20 ; Sulliv. Icon. Muse. Supjil. 



29, t, 18. 



On moist clayey soil, at Aul)urn, Ukiali, etc. (Buhnukr) ; Oregon, J/d/l. 



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

 below oblong-lanceolate and detlexed, the tq)per more or less spreading, obovate- 

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

 ilexuose jwint, obtusely serrate or nearly entire, the yellow costa ceasing near the 

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



