56 Mr. W. Mitten's Remarks on Mosses, 



Tribe IV. Funariace^. 



Cells of the leaves parenchymatous, lax. Capsules more or 

 less pyriform, apophysate, astomate, stomate, gymnostomate, 

 peristomate, and diploperistomate. Teeth sixteen or thirty-two, 

 sometimes cohering together : internal peristome of processes and 

 cilia. Calyptra mitriform, dimidiate, or calymperoid. Mosses of 

 great beauty, with chlorophyllose or pale pellucid leaves, and with 

 capsules having sometimes remarkably large and coloured apo- 

 physes : growing on the earth or on decaying animal or vegetable 

 matter. 



Sect. 1. Funaroideee. 



Capsules not remarkably apophysate. Peristome of trabecu- 

 late teeth. 



Genus 1. Ephemerum, Hampe. 



2. Ephemerella, C. Mailer. 



3. Physcomitrium, Brid., including Phascum patens, Hedw., 

 and Schistidium serratum. Hook, et Wils. 



4. Pyramidium, Brid. 



5. Entosthodon, Schw. 



6. Discelium, Brid. 



7. Funaria, Schreb. 



8. Amblyodon, PaL de Beauv. 



Sect. 2. SplachnoidecE. 



Capsules sometimes remarkably apophysate. Peristome of 

 mostly geminate teeth, which are not trabeculate. 



9. (Edipodium, Schw. 



10. Tetraplodon, B. et S. 



11. Tayloria, Hook., including Voitia, Hsch. 



12. Dissodon, Grev. et Arnott. 



13. Splachnum, Linn. 



Tribe V. Bkyaceje. 



Cells of the leaves in the upper parts prosenchymatous, in the 

 lower parallelogram. Capsules pyriform, clavate or cylindrical, 

 stomate, gymnostomate, peristomate, and diploperistomate. Teeth 

 sixteen : internal peristome of processes and cilia. Calyptra di- 

 midiate. Small or rather large and graceful mosses, mostly with 

 pendulous capsules : growing on the earth, on rocks, and on 

 trees. 



Genus 1. Schistostega, Mohr. 



2. Meilichhoferia, Hsch. 



3. Lcptochlaena, Mont. 



4. Orthodontium, Schw. 



5. Bryum, Dill. 



