370 Mr. R. Spruce on the Musci and Hepatice of the Pyrenees. 
Tribus 16. Funariace#, Bryol. Europ. (ex parte). 
28. Amblyodon, Pal. Beauv. 
195. A. dealbatus, Dicks. Crypt. fase. 2. p. 8. t. 5. £. 3 feu 
Bryo) ; Br. Europ. Amblyodon (cum ic.). 
Hab. Z, in spongiosis. P. occ. in monte Lizé, socio Meesia 
trichode. P. or. Port Negre (Arnott !). 
29. Funaria, Schreber. 
196. F. hygrometrica, L. Sp. Pl. p. 1575 (sub Mnio); Br. 
Europ. Funaria, t. 3; M. P. 148. 
Hab. Zy_3 locis exustis, ruderatis et calcareis. 
197. F. convewa, Spruce in Musci Pyr. 149. F. servtay B. et 
S. Br. Europ. Funaria, p. 8. t. 2 (non Brid. Br. Univ. 2. p. 57). 
Hab. Z, P. occ. St. Sever, in aggeribus arenosis, socio F. Mueh- 
lenbergit, a quo operculo convexo neutiquam convexo-conico primo 
visu dignoscenda. 
I had come to the conclusion that this moss must be distinct from 
the F. serrata of Bridel (whose specimens were Pennsylvanian ones 
communicated by Palisot-de-Beauvois) before I had the opportunity 
of examining the specimens so named by Hooker and Wilson in 
Drummond’s ‘ Mosses of the Southern States,’ &c., No. 76, and those 
of Sullivant in his beautiful ‘ Musci Alleghanyenses,’ No. 126; and 
it is satisfactory to find my opinion supported by the decisions of 
these eminent botanists. The American specimens agree much better 
with Bridel’s description in the form of the leaves, &c. than do those 
of Bruch and Schimper. I find the pericheetial leaves of the former 
to be oblong-lanceolate, acute or subapiculate (never acuminate), 
plane, serrated almost to the very base, the rather strong nerve reach- 
ing nearly to the point, and it is sometimes only with a tolerably high 
power that it can be ascertained to fail one or two cellules below it. 
Bridel calls the leaves ‘‘ acuminata’’ in his spec. char., but in his 
description he uses the more applicable term “ acutiuscula.” Of the 
nerve he says ‘‘proxime sub apicem abrupto nunc paulum excur- 
rente :”’ I have never seen it excurrent, but it may well have ap- 
peared so in some cases with the inferior instruments which Bridel 
seems to have used. 
F. convexa has the leaves larger, proportionally much. wider, spa- 
thulato-acuminate (‘‘ forma peculiari, subspathulata,” Br. Europ.), 
concave, the marginal serratures rarely descending below the middle, 
the feeble nerve only 3 the length of the leaf, and the areolation wider ; 
the pedicel shorter, when dry twisted to the right ; the mouth of the 
capsule more oblique and the teeth of the peristome with fewer arti- 
culations. 
F. conveva is distinguished from F. Muehlenbergii by another ob- 
vious character, besides the one above-mentioned, namely by the 
calyptra being persistent on full-grown dried capsules, its beak point- 
ing downwards and usually seria te to the pedicel; whereas in the 
