130 CLASS XXII. ORDER III. 



3. Inner fieristome consisting of a membraney or of 

 united f laments. 



FoNTiNALis. Inner peristome consisting of a 

 reticulate membrane with longitudinal fibres. 56. 4 

 — antefiyretica^ (water moss) leaves of the sheath 

 obtuse, stem branched— cc/z/Z/acert, leaves acute, 

 peduncle long. 



BuxBAUMiA. Outer teeth extremely short and 

 truncate ; inner peristome consists of 2 or more 

 cylinders of filaments slightly connected together, 

 the inner cylinder being the longest : capsule ob- 

 lique : peduncle radical. 56. 4 — aphytla^ (leafless 

 moss) capsule peduncled. 



F. Cafisule ivith a lid, and furnished with a double 

 fieristome^ outer one consisting- of \6 connected 

 teeth- 



FuNARiA. Outer teeth oblique and connected 

 at the tips : inner are 16 filaments lying flat : pe- 

 duncles terminal. 56.4 — Ay^rowe^nca, (rope moss) 

 leaves inflected, peduncle becomes twisted by dry- 

 ing. 



Order III. HEPATicAE.f 



JuNGERMANNiA. Capsulcs 4-valved with chain- 

 like seed-dispersers, peduncled, arising from a 

 bell-form calyx. (An apophysis adjoins the cap- 

 sule, and it has a silvery filamentous peduncle, 

 which often grows several inches in one night. 

 The peduncle rises from a bell-form calyx, which 

 is more permanent than the fruit. In this calyx 

 the fruit lies concealed a while, at length it opens 

 and discloses a small shining black globule, which 

 rises on the silvery peduncle and bursts into 4 



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f The plants of this order have the fructification much 

 like that of Mosses ; but the fronU or kafy part sometimes 

 resembles that of Lichens. 



