650 (50) -  MUSCI. (MOSSES.) 
7. B. radicalis, Beauv. Monccious; stems short; leaves lincar-lanceo- 
late, erect, cuspidate by the long-excurrent RO te costa; male flower gemmi- 
form, close to the female. — Wet clay-banks, Ohio and southward 
52. CONOSTOMUM, Swartz. (Tab. IIL) 
Calyptra cuculliform. Operculum conic-rostellate. Regie globular, cer- 
nuous, exannulate, with a long erect pedicel. Peristome single: teeth 16, linear- 
lanceolate, prominently articulated, with a medial fd united at their apices. 
4 ; 
Inflorescence dicecious : male flower Seeley with tiie paraphyses. —A 
genus scarce enaeie os from B ia, differing only in the structure of 
the peristome, th t lu sai the larger and less fugacious calyp- 
tra. (Name from Kévos, a ‘i and ihe a mouth, in allusion to the cone-like 
appearance of the peristome. ) 
1. C. boreale, Swartz. Stems ing i ae ie 2! high, glau- 
im ted i 
(Tab. IIL.) 
Trine XXII. FUNARIEX. 
53. FUNARIA, Schreb. (Tab. IIL.) 
WORN aaah eae ean subulate above. Operculum conic or 
convex-obtuse. i pyriform eae ventricose, cernuous, with a 
small ‘saligha é maud, long- podicellato. Peris e double: the exterior — 16 
teeth, oblique, lanceolate-attenuated, and connected at their apices b 
cilia, opposi teeth. rere moneecious: male flower subdiscoid 
its paraphyses pave enlarged at apex. — Annual or biennial gregario 
“— growing on the ground; stems at first simple, te d a male 
flower, afterwards branched, the branches producing fertile flowers ; lower leaves 
cata upper ones clustered, larger, broad-lanceolate, of a thin and loose tex- 
ture ; the areolx large, hexagonal-oblong ; costa loosely cellular, pene below 
is the 
lus large, spirally unrolling ; pedicel (2’—-3/ long) arcuate and flexuous. Hho 
CALV&scens has the pedicel more elongated and straight, the capsule- 
ney and almost erect. — Very common, on the ground (particularly wn 
lately burnt es and on walls; the variety occurs mostly in the South 
States. (Tab. II.) (Eu.) 
2, F. flAvicams, Michx. In general appearance very much like the last; 
tae the color paler; leaves not so connivent and with a long cuspidate point, the 
