136 A MAXUAl. OF MOSSES 



when old ; lid low-convex, not apiculate ; spores about .025 mm. 

 in diameter, mature in iNIay or June : autoicous. 



On bare moist earth, usually clay, Abyssinia and, in North 

 .\merica, from New York south and west. 



Lawrence : T. P. James. (Porter's Catalogue). 



3. Funaria hygrometrica [L. — Sibthorp] Hedwig. 

 (Plate XVII) 



Loosely cespitose, rather light green: stems about 3-10 

 mm. high, erect, radiculose at base, simple or basally divided; 

 leaves erect to appressed, concave, forming a bulbiform tuft, 

 oblong-ovate, acute or shortly acuminate, entire or slightly 

 crenate, larger leaves. 2-4 mm. long by three-fifths as wide, 

 strongly costate to the apex or percurrently costate ; cells rec- 

 tangular to hexagonal, narrower towards margin, above more 

 or less quadrate-hexagonal, the lower more or less inflated, 

 above becoming more or less incrassate : seta about 2-5 cm. 

 high, erect, sinistrorse, flexuous, lustrous, chestnut-brown, 

 paler above ; capsule unsymmetric, arched and turgid on upper 

 side, 2-3 mm. long, strongly incurved at mouth, deeply sulcate 

 when dry, pyriform, yellowish to brown when old, usually 

 more or less horizontal but the upper part of seta often vari- 

 ously bent and curved and strongly hygroscopic ; mouth about 

 0.6-0.8 mm. wide, annulus revoluble, deep castaneous; opercu- 

 lum low-convex; peristome-teeth castaneous-pellucid, papil- 

 lose, strongly trabeculate, spirally twisted, united at apex; 

 segments about three-fourths as long, papillose ; spores smooth, 

 round, about .014— .017 mm. ; mature in May or June ; calyptra 

 cucullate, long-rostrate, early deciduous : autoicous. 



Wideh' distributed over the earth ; throughout North 

 America. Common in our region on earth, burnt-over spots, 

 etc. (Quite variable in size and leaf -characters but we have 

 not been able to recognize any of the several described varie- 

 ties in our region.) 



Allegheny : Power's Run, April 22, and May 23, 1905, 

 April 18, 1906. Schenley Park, Pitts- 

 burgh, August 16, 1905 ; Sandy Creek, 

 May 8, 1904; Carnot, May 20, 1907, and 

 October 11, 1908; Fern Hollow, August 

 20, 1906; Allegheny, May 26, 1909; Li- 

 brary P. O., April 29, 1906, all O. E. J.; 

 Bakerstown Station, August 22, 1907. O. 

 E. J. and G. K. J. 

 Beaver : Beaver Falls, May 14, 1907. O. E. J. 



Cambria : : St. Lawrence, July 24, 1908. O. E. J. 



Crawford : Linesville, May 10, 1906, and May 12 and 



May 28, 1908. O. E. J. 



