650 MUSCI. (MOSSES.) 



7. B. radicfilis, Bcauv. Monoecious ; stems short ; leaves linear-lanceo- 

 late, erect, cuspidate by the long-excurrent scabrous costa ; male flower geinmi- 

 form, close to the female. Wet clay-banks, Ohio and southward. 



52. CONOSTOUIUUI, Swartz. (Tab. 17.) 



Calyptra cuculliform. Operculum conic-rostellate. Capsule globular, cer- 

 nuous, exannulate, with a long erect pedicel. Peristome single : teeth 16, linear- 

 lanceolate, prominently articulated, with a medial line, united at their apices. 

 Inflorescence dicecious : male flower subdiscoid, with clavate paraphyses. A 

 genus scarcely distinguishable from Bartramia, differing only in the structure of 

 the peristome, the rostcllate operculum, and the larger and less fugacious calyp- 

 fra. (Name from K&VOS, a cone, and ord/ia, a mouth, in allusion to the cone-like 

 appearance of the peristome. ) 



1. C. bo resile, Swartz. Stems compactly caespitose, '-2' high, glau- 

 cous-green above, brownish below ; leaves erect, imbricated in 5 rows, lanceo- 

 late-acuminate, serrate, sharply carinate, mucronate by the excurrent costa. 

 On rocks, in bleak alpine situations, White Mountains of New Hampshire. 

 (Tab. 17.) (Eu.) 



TRIBE XXII. FUNARIE^. 



53. FUN ARIA, Schreb. (Tab. 17.) 



Calyptra cuculliform, inflated below, subulate above. _ Operculum conic or 

 convex-obtuse. Capsule obliquely pyriform, rather ventricose, cernuous, with a 

 small oblique mouth, long-pedicellate. J?eristome double : the exterior of 16 

 teeth, oblique, lanceolate-attenuated, and connected at their apices by a small 

 reticulated disk ; the interior a membrane divided to the base into 16 lanceolate 

 cilia, opposite the teeth. Inflorescence monoecious : male flower subdiscoid, 

 its paraphyses much enlarged at their apex. Annual or biennial gregarious 

 plants, growing on the ground ; stems at first simple, terminated by a male 

 flower, afterwards branched, the branches producing fertile flowers ; lower leaves 

 remote ; upper ones clustered, larger, broad-lanceolate, of a thin and loose tex- 

 ture ; the areola? large, hexagonal-oblong ; costa loosely cellular, ceasing below 

 the apex. (Name from funis, a rope, from the twisted pedicel.) 



1. F. liygrom<etrica, Hedw. Stems 3" -10" high; upper and peri- 

 chffitial leaves connivent, crowded into a bud-like cluster, broadly ovate-lanceo- 

 late, very concave, entire, costate nearly to the apex ; the perigonial leaves 

 serrate ; capsule fun-owed when dry, the border of its mouth corrugated ; annu- 

 lus large, spirally unrolling ; pedicel (2' -3' long) arcuate and flexuous Var. 

 CALVESCENS has the pedicel more elongated and straight, the capsule more 

 slender, and almost erect. Very common, on the ground (particularly when 

 lately burnt over), and on walls ; the variety occurs mostly in the Southern 

 States. (Tab. 17.) (Eu.) 



2. F. ilii vicmis, Michx. In general appearance very much like the last ; 

 but the color paler ; leaves not so connivent and with a long cuspidate point, the 



